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ESA
2008
Springer
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Oblivious Randomized Direct Search for Real-Parameter Optimization
The focus is on black-box optimization of a function f : RN R given as a black box, i. e. an oracle for f-evaluations. This is commonly called direct search, and in fact, most meth...
Jens Jägersküpper
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Structural search for RTL with predicate learning
We present an efficient search strategy for satisfiability checking on circuits represented at the register-transfer-level (RTL). We use the RTL circuit structure by extending con...
Ganapathy Parthasarathy, Madhu K. Iyer, Kwang-Ting...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
ECAI
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Structure Learning of Markov Logic Networks through Iterated Local Search
Many real-world applications of AI require both probability and first-order logic to deal with uncertainty and structural complexity. Logical AI has focused mainly on handling com...
Marenglen Biba, Stefano Ferilli, Floriana Esposito
EMNLP
2007
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Improving Query Spelling Correction Using Web Search Results
Traditional research on spelling correction in natural language processing and information retrieval literature mostly relies on pre-defined lexicons to detect spelling errors. Bu...
Qing Chen, Mu Li, Ming Zhou