Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...
Incorporating features extracted from clickthrough data (called clickthrough features) has been demonstrated to significantly improve the performance of ranking models for Web sea...
Many contemporary database applications require similarity-based retrieval of complex objects where the only usable knowledge of its domain is determined by a metric distance func...
Weijia Xu, Daniel P. Miranker, Rui Mao, Smriti R. ...
All pivot-based algorithms for similarity search use a set of reference points called pivots. The pivot-based search algorithm precomputes some distances to these reference points...
Benjamin Bustos, Oscar Pedreira, Nieves R. Brisabo...
We present a novel search algorithm which is suitable for optimizing functions with a high-dimensional discrete-valued parameter vector. The algorithm is designed to find a funct...
Tuukka Toivonen, Loren Merritt, Ville Ojansivu, Ja...