Heuristics are an increasingly popular solution method for combinatorial optimization problems. Heuristic use often frees the modeler from some of the restrictions placed on class...
Traditional adaptive hypermedia systems have focused on providing adaptation functionality on a closed corpus, while Web search interfaces have delivered non-personalized informati...
Peter Dolog, Nicola Henze, Wolfgang Nejdl, Michael...
Abstract. Collaborative Web Search (CWS) proposes a case-based approach to personalizing search results for the needs of a community of like-minded searchers. The search activities...
When searching for health information, results quality can be judged against available scientific evidence: Do search engines return advice consistent with evidence based medicine...
Thanh Tin Tang, Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Kath...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...