Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures use special nodes to provide directory services for regions of the network (“regional directory services”). Hybrid peer-to-peer architectures...
Many evolutionary computation search spaces require fitness assessment through the sampling of and generalization over a large set of possible cases as input. Such spaces seem par...
The use of examples serves a critical role in creative design practice, but details of this process remain an enigma. This is problematic for both the understanding of design acti...
Scarlett R. Herring, Chia-Chen Chang, Jesse Krantz...
Despite its potential to improve search effectiveness, previous research has shown that the uptake of interactive query expansion (IQE) is limited. In this paper, we investigate on...
Nuzhah Gooda Sahib, Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthve...
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...