Background: With the continued development of new computational tools for multiple sequence alignment, it is necessary today to develop benchmarks that aid the selection of the mo...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Jie Peng, Craig Macdonald, I...
Given a transportation network having source nodes with evacuees and destination nodes, we want to find a contraflow network configuration (that is, ideal direction for each edge) ...
Process-driven service-oriented architectures (SOA) need to cope with constant changing requirements of various compliance requirements, such as quality of service (QoS) constraint...
Ernst Oberortner, Uwe Zdun, Schahram Dustdar, Agni...