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ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Back to the Roots: Mean-Variance Analysis of Relevance Estimations
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
EDBT
2011
ACM
203views Database» more  EDBT 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
QueryViz: helping users understand SQL queries and their patterns
We present QueryViz, a novel visualization tool for SQL queries that reduces the time needed to read and understand existing queries. It targets two principal audiences: (i) users...
Jonathan Danaparamita, Wolfgang Gatterbauer
ESWS
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Optimizing Query Shortcuts in RDF Databases
The emergence of the Semantic Web has led to the creation of large semantic knowledge bases, often in the form of RDF databases. Improving the performance of RDF databases necessit...
Vicky Dritsou, Panos Constantopoulos, Antonios Del...
EUROSYS
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Database engines on multicores, why parallelize when you can distribute?
Multicore computers pose a substantial challenge to infrastructure software such as operating systems or databases. Such software typically evolves slower than the underlying hard...
Tudor-Ioan Salomie, Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Jana Gic...
GECCO
2011
Springer
276views Optimization» more  GECCO 2011»
14 years 10 months ago
Evolution of reward functions for reinforcement learning
The reward functions that drive reinforcement learning systems are generally derived directly from the descriptions of the problems that the systems are being used to solve. In so...
Scott Niekum, Lee Spector, Andrew G. Barto
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