The global wave of ICT development has become a strong driving force in almost every aspect of human endeavor. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is fast gaining a prominent place i...
Games may be represented in many different ways, and different representations of games affect the complexity of problems associated with games, such as finding a Nash equilib...
We consider the following full-text search autocompletion feature. Imagine a user of a search engine typing a query. Then with every letter being typed, we would like an instant d...
We present a new family of hybrid index maintenance strategies to be used in on-line index construction for monotonically growing text collections. These new strategies improve up...
A common limitation of many retrieval models, including the recently proposed axiomatic approaches, is that retrieval scores are solely based on exact (i.e., syntactic) matching o...