Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
Traditional Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) [19] is a successful algorithm for decomposing datasets into basis function that have reasonable interpretation. One problem of...
Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Alexander G. Gray, David V. A...
This article investigates the effectiveness of community generated tags as social descriptors of resources uncoordinatedly annotated by community members. Our goal is to demonstra...
Jinsheng Xu, Christo Dichev, Albert C. Esterline, ...
We address the problem of merging qualitative constraint networks (QCNs) representing agents local preferences or beliefs on the relative position of spatial or temporal entities. ...
A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...