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HT
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving recommender systems with adaptive conversational strategies
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) assist online users in their information-seeking and decision making tasks by supporting an interactive process. Although these processes...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci
GIS
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
ASPEN: an adaptive spatial peer-to-peer network
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku
KDD
2002
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
Thorsten Joachims
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluation of genomic island predictors using a comparative genomics approach
Background: Genomic islands (GIs) are clusters of genes in prokaryotic genomes of probable horizontal origin. GIs are disproportionately associated with microbial adaptations of m...
Morgan G. I. Langille, William W. L. Hsiao, Fiona ...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Speeding up adaptation of web service compositions using expiration times
Web processes must often operate in volatile environments where the quality of service parameters of the participating service providers change during the life time of the process...
John Harney, Prashant Doshi