Multimedia Information Retrieval (IR) techniques and associated systems are now numerous and justify the development of strategies and actions to objectively evaluate their capabi...
Abstract. Searching specialized collections, such as biomedical literature, typically requires intimate knowledge of a specialized terminology. Hence, it can be a disappointing exp...
Combinatorial auctions where bidders can bid on bundles of items can lead to more economical allocations, but determining the winners is NP-complete and inapproximable. We present...
Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin, Davi...
Boolean linear programs (BLPs) are ubiquitous in AI. Satisfiability testing, planning with resource constraints, and winner determination in combinatorial auctions are all example...
Dale Schuurmans, Finnegan Southey, Robert C. Holte
In response to a query a search engine returns a ranked list of documents. If the query is on a popular topic (i.e., it matches many documents) then the returned list is usually t...