Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
We consider the problem of deep web source selection and argue that existing source selection methods are inadequate as they are based on local similarity assessment. Specificall...
A novel native stochastic local search algorithm for solving k-term DNF problems is presented. It is evaluated on hard k-term DNF problems that lie on the phase transition and com...
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
This paper presents a new adaptive graph-cut based move-making algorithm for energy minimization. Traditional move-making algorithms such as Expansion and Swap operate by searchin...