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COMPSAC
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Infrastructure Hardening: A Competitive Coevolutionary Methodology Inspired by Neo-Darwinian Arms Races
The world is increasingly dependent on critical infrastructures such as the electric power grid, water, gas, and oil transport systems, which are susceptible to cascading failures...
Travis C. Service, Daniel R. Tauritz, William M. S...
WEBI
2010
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Lightweight Clustering Methods for Webspam Demotion
Abstract--To make sure they can quickly respond to a specific query, the main search engines have several mechanisms. One of them consists in ranking web pages according to their i...
Thomas Largillier, Sylvain Peyronnet
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A new probabilistic retrieval model based on the dirichlet compound multinomial distribution
The classical probabilistic models attempt to capture the Ad hoc information retrieval problem within a rigorous probabilistic framework. It has long been recognized that the prim...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Generic soft pattern models for definitional question answering
This paper explores probabilistic lexico-syntactic pattern matching, also known as soft pattern matching. While previous methods in soft pattern matching are ad hoc in computing t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A probabilistic relevance propagation model for hypertext retrieval
A major challenge in developing models for hypertext retrieval is to effectively combine content information with the link structure available in hypertext collections. Although s...
Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang Zhai