This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...
A number of experimental studies based on domain-specific tasks have evaluated the efficiency of navigation techniques for searching multi-scale worlds. The discrepancies among th...
Emmanuel Pietriga, Caroline Appert, Michel Beaudou...
Structured and semi-structured object representations are getting more and more important for modern database applications. Examples for such data are hierarchical structures inclu...
Karin Kailing, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Stefan Schö...
—With the abundance of location-aware portable devices such as cellphones and PDAs, a new emerging application is to use this pervasive computing platform to learn about the wher...
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...