Information retrieval is an empirical science; the field cannot move forward unless there are means of evaluating the innovations devised by researchers. However the methodologies...
Mark Sanderson, Martin Braschler, Nicola Ferro, Ju...
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...
We introduce a new technique to solve exactly a discrete optimization problem, based on the paradigm of “negative” thinking. The motivation is that when searching the space of...
Evguenii I. Goldberg, Luca P. Carloni, Tiziano Vil...
—Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the n...
Hongbo Jiang, Jie Cheng, Dan Wang, Chonggang Wang,...