This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different interagent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from ...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems suffer from the overspecification of query results due to the fact that queries are conjunctive and the descriptions of shared files are sparse. ...
— Finding decompositions of a graph into a family of clusters is crucial to understanding its underlying structure. While most existing approaches focus on partitioning the nodes...
Scientists need customizable tools to help them with discovery. We present an adjustable heuristic function for scientific discovery. This function may be considered in either a Mi...
Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is store...