Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
We investigates language models for informational and navigational web search. Retrieval on the web is a task that differs substantially from ordinary ad hoc retrieval. We perfor...
Competent Genetic Algorithms can efficiently address problems in which the linkage between variables is limited to a small order k. Problems with higher order dependencies can onl...
Edwin D. de Jong, Richard A. Watson, Dirk Thierens
Abstract. In this paper we present a randomized constant factor approximation algorithm for the problem of computing the optimal cost of the metric Minimum Facility Location proble...
Mihai Badoiu, Artur Czumaj, Piotr Indyk, Christian...
In conversational case-based reasoning (CCBR), a main problem is how to select the most discriminative questions and display them to users in a natural way to alleviate users’ co...