Searching for images of people is an essential task for image and video search engines. However, current search engines have limited capabilities for this task since they rely on ...
Web spamming refers to actions intended to mislead search engines into ranking some pages higher than they deserve. Recently, the amount of web spam has increased dramatically, le...
This paper presents a memetic algorithm with self-adaptive local search, applied to protein structure prediction in an HP, cubiclattice model. Besides describing in detail how the ...
The BFGS quasi-Newton method is benchmarked on the noiseless BBOB-2009 testbed. A multistart strategy is applied with a maximum number of function evaluations of 105 times the sea...
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...