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CONSTRAINTS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
The Impact of Search Heuristics on Heavy-Tailed Behaviour
Abstract. The heavy-tailed phenomenon that characterises the runtime distributions of backtrack search procedures has received considerable attention over the past few years. Some ...
Tudor Hulubei, Barry O'Sullivan
ALMOB
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Refining motifs by improving information content scores using neighborhood profile search
The main goal of the motif finding problem is to detect novel, over-represented unknown signals in a set of sequences (e.g. transcription factor binding sites in a genome). The mo...
Chandan K. Reddy, Yao-Chung Weng, Hsiao-Dong Chian...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
135views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Reverse Nearest Neighbors Search in Ad-hoc Subspaces
Given an object q, modeled by a multidimensional point, a reverse nearest neighbors (RNN) query returns the set of objects in the database that have q as their nearest neighbor. I...
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis
GECCO
2007
Springer
168views Optimization» more  GECCO 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Sex and death: towards biologically inspired heuristics for constraint handling
Constrained continuous optimization is still an interesting field of research. Many heuristics have been proposed in the last decade. Most of them are based on penalty functions....
Oliver Kramer, Stephan Brügger, Dejan Lazovic
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Reducing long queries using query quality predictors
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho