In non-binary constraint satisfaction problems, the study of local consistencies that only prune values from domains has so far been largely limited to generalized arc consistency...
The Airline Crew Assignment Problem (ACA) consists of assigning lines of work to a set of crew members such that a set of activities is partitioned and the costs for that assignmen...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
CASO is an agent-oriented programming language based on AgentSpeak(L), one of the most influential abstract languages based on the BDI (Beliefs-Desires-Intentions) architecture. ...
Relevant Component Analysis (RCA) has been proposed for learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval. However, RCA has two important disadvantages. On...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Wei Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-Yin...