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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Like an intuitive and courteous butler: a proactive personal agent for task management
The ability to proactively offer assistance promises to make personal agents more helpful to their users. We characterize the properties desired of proactive behaviour by a person...
Neil Yorke-Smith, Shahin Saadati, Karen L. Myers, ...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Adaptive relevance feedback in information retrieval
Relevance Feedback has proven very effective for improving retrieval accuracy. A difficult yet important problem in all relevance feedback methods is how to optimally balance the...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
ASIC: algebra-based structural index comparison
Structural indices play a significant role in improving the efficiency of XML query evaluation. Being able to compare various structural indexing techniques is critical for a DBM...
Yuqing Wu, Sofia Brenes, Tejas Totade, Shijin Josh...
CPAIOR
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Backdoors to Combinatorial Optimization: Feasibility and Optimality
There has been considerable interest in the identification of structural properties of combinatorial problems that lead, directly or indirectly, to the development of efficient al...
Bistra N. Dilkina, Carla P. Gomes, Yuri Malitsky, ...
CSR
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Simulation of Arithmetical Circuits by Branching Programs with Preservation of Constant Width and Syntactic Multilinearity
Abstract. We study structural properties of restricted width arithmetical circuits. It is shown that syntactically multilinear arithmetical circuits of constant width can be effici...
Maurice J. Jansen, B. V. Raghavendra Rao