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CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
The problem of results merging in distributed information retrieval environments has been approached by two different directions in research. Estimation approaches attempt to cal...
COCO
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2005
Springer
Consider a two-party quantum communication protocol for computing some function f : {0, 1}n × {0, 1}n → Z. We show that the first message of P can be compressed to O(k) classi...
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2003
ACM
Compiler writers have crafted many heuristics over the years to approximately solve NP-hard problems efficiently. Finding a heuristic that performs well on a broad range of applic...
ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
2003
Springer
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
SIGIR
1992
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1992
ACM
ct We describe work on the visualization of bibliographic data and, to aid in this task, the application of numerical techniques for multidimensional scaling. Many areas of scienti...