Purpose – This paper reports the findings of a major study examining the overlap among results retrieved by three major web search engines. The goal of the research was to: mea...
Amanda Spink, Bernard J. Jansen, Chris Blakely, Sh...
Memetic algorithms with continuous local search methods have arisen as effective tools to address the difficulty of obtaining reliable solutions of high precision for complex cont...
While spoken term detection (STD) systems based on word indices provide good accuracy, there are several practical applications where it is infeasible or too costly to employ an L...
Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...
—In this paper, the multiple trajectory search (MTS) is presented for large scale global optimization. The MTS uses multiple agents to search the solution space concurrently. Eac...