Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...
In-place and merge-based index maintenance are the two main competing strategies for on-line index construction in dynamic information retrieval systems based on inverted lists. Mo...
Users of a digital book library system typically interact with the system to search for books by querying on the metadata describing the books or to search for information in the p...
Abstract. We present a case-based reasoning technique based on conceptual neighborhoods of cases. The system applies domain knowledge to the case retrieval process in the form of r...
Abstract. Auction-based electronic commerce is an increasingly interesting domain for AI researchers. In this paper we present an attempt towards the construction of trading agents...