We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
One problem that has plagued Genetic Programming (GP) and its derivatives is numerical constant creation. Given a mathematical formula expressed as a tree structure, the leaf node...
Biomimetic, or biologically inspired, design uses analogous biological phenomena to develop solutions for engineering problems. Several instances of biomimetic design result from ...
In this paper, we propose a document clustering method that strives to achieve: (1) a high accuracy of document clustering, and (2) the capability of estimating the number of clus...
Identifying hot spots of moving vehicles in an urban area is essential to many smart city applications. The practical research on hot spots in smart city presents many unique feat...
Siyuan Liu, Yunhuai Liu, Lionel M. Ni, Jianping Fa...