Abstract. Searching objects within a catalog is a problem of increasing importance, as the general public has access to increasing volumes of data. Constraint programming has addre...
Symmetry in a Constraint Satisfaction Problem can cause wasted search, which can be avoided by adding constraints to the CSP to exclude symmetric assignments or by modifying the s...
Although evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are widely used in practical optimization, their theoretical analysis is still in its infancy. Up to now results on the (expected) runtime ar...
Desktop search is an important part of personal information management (PIM). However, research in this area has been limited by the lack of shareable test collections, making cum...
Log data constitute a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of the quality of a search engine and the quality of a multilingual search service; log data can be used to study t...
Thomas Mandl, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di ...