We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
This papers deals with multiway spatial joins when (i) there is limited time for query processing and the goal is to retrieve the best possible solutions within this limit (ii) the...
Time plays important roles in Web search, because most Web pages contain time information and a lot of Web queries are time-related. However, traditional search engines such as Go...
Neighbor search is a fundamental task in machine learning, especially in classification and retrieval. Efficient nearest neighbor search methods have been widely studied, with the...
A number of applications require selecting targets for specific contents on the basis of criteria defined by the contents providers rather than selecting documents in response to ...