The purpose of authorship search is to identify documents written by a particular author or in a particular style in large document collections. Standard search engines match docum...
Content-based image search on the Internet is a challenging problem, mostly due to the semantic gap between low-level visual features and high-level content, as well as the excess...
In combinatorial solution spaces Iterated Local Search (ILS) turns out to be exceptionally successful. The question arises: is ILS also capable of improving the optimization proces...
Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval met...
The traditional strategy performed by Information Retrieval (IR) systems is ranked keyword search: For a given query, a list of documents, ordered by relevance, is returned. Releva...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Anna Lisa Genti...