The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
— Self-management has often been proposed as a means to reduce the growing complexity of administration in distributed systems. We argue that this can be achieved through aggress...
We tested effects of dissuading students from requesting help unless they really needed it. The manipulation occurred while the students solved problems on an ITS that provided pro...
Large video collections present a unique set of challenges to the search system designer. Text transcripts do not always provide an accurate index to the visual content, and the pe...
John Adcock, Matthew L. Cooper, Andreas Girgensohn...
Abstract. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have proven to be a powerful tool for global optimization purposes of deterministic problem functions. Yet, in many real-w...