Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Term weighting strongly influences the performance of text mining and information retrieval approaches. Usually term weights are determined through statistical estimates based on s...
The stochastic discrimination (SD) theory considers learning as building models of uniform coverage over data distributions. Despite successful trials of the derived SD method in s...
Optical lithography is a critical step in the semiconductor manufacturing process, and one key problem is the design of the photomask for a particular circuit pattern, given the o...
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) uses approximate gradients estimated from subsets of the training data and updates the parameters in an online fashion. This learning framework i...