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ECIR
2009
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
Probabilistic retrieval models usually rank documents based on a scalar quantity. However, such models lack any estimate for the uncertainty associated with a document’s rank. Fu...
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EVOW
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. We revisit Gaussian Adaptation (GaA), a black-box optimizer for discrete and continuous problems that has been developed in the late 1960’s. This largely neglected sear...
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ICDE
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
2009
IEEE
— A paramount challenge in probabilistic databases is the scalable computation of confidences of tuples in query results. This paper introduces an efficient secondary-storage o...
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PAKDD
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
2009
ACM
Abstract. Newistic is a web mining platform that collects and analyses documents crawled from the Internet. Although it currently processes news articles, it can be easily adapted ...
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CEC
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
2009
IEEE
— Despite their success as optimization methods, evolutionary algorithms face many difficulties to design artifacts with complex structures. According to paleontologists, living...