In this paper we investigate two aspects of ranking problems on large graphs. First, we augment the deterministic pruning algorithm in Sarkar and Moore (2007) with sampling techni...
A new crossover technique, we named Rank and Proximity Based Crossover (RPC), to improve the speed and quality of solutions in Genetic search, is proposed. In the proposed strategy...
A lot of recent work has dealt with improving performance of content searching in peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper we attack this problem by modifying the overlay ...
This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximitysensing system designed to help end-users locate people, pl...
Leila Takayama, Lawrence Leung, Xiaodong Jiang, Ja...
Exact phrase matching is a powerful tool to quickly retrieve results when a sufficient section of the text is accurately provided as the query. If the section of the text is not c...
Kathryn Patterson, Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. ...