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2009
ACM
14 years 3 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
DCC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Shared Descriptions Fusion Coding for Storage and Selective Retrieval of Correlated Sources
Motivated by sensor networks, we consider the fusion storage of correlated sources in a database, such that any subset of them may be efficiently retrieved in the future. Only st...
Sharadh Ramaswamy, Kenneth Rose
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Controlled Flooding Search with Delay Constraints
— In this paper we consider the problem of query and search in a network, e.g., searching for a specific node or a piece of data. We limit our attention to the class of TTL (tim...
Nicholas B. Chang, Mingyan Liu
ADC
2006
Springer
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A multi-step strategy for approximate similarity search in image databases
Many strategies for similarity search in image databases assume a metric and quadratic form-based similarity model where an optimal lower bounding distance function exists for fil...
Paul Wing Hing Kwan, Junbin Gao
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai