All Outputs (14)

DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
OMOMOWO, B., ARANA, I. and AHRIZ, H. 2008. DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs. In Dochev, D., Pistore, M. and Traverso, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International conference on artificial intelligence: methodology, systems and applications (AIMSA 2008), 4-6 September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Lecture notes in computer science, 5253. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 285-296. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85776-1_24

Constraint Satisfaction has been widely used to model static combinatorial problems. However, many AI problems are dynamic and take place in a distributed environment, i.e. the problems are distributed over a number of agents and change over time. Dy... Read More about DynABT: dynamic asynchronous backtracking for dynamic DisCSPs..

A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
LEE, D., ARANA, I., AHRIZ, H. and HUI, K.-Y. 2008. A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction. In Dochev, D., Pistore, M. and Traverso, P. (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International conference on artificial intelligence: methodology, systems and applications (AIMSA 2008), 4-6 September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. Lecture notes in computer science, 5253. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 375-379. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85776-1_33

We present a hybrid approach to Distributed Constraint Satisfaction which combines incomplete, fast, penalty-based local search with complete, slower systematic search. Thus, we propose the hybrid algorithm PenDHyb where the distributed local search... Read More about A hybrid approach to distributed constraint satisfaction..

Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
SONG, D., HUANG, Q., RUGER, S. and BRUZA, P. 2008. Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 334-345. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_31

This paper presents a novel framework to further advance the recent trend of using query decomposition and high-order term relationships in query language modeling, which takes into account terms implicitly associated with different subsets of query... Read More about Facilitating query decomposition in query language modeling by association rule mining using multiple sliding windows..

Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
HUANG, Q., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2008. Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion. In Macdonald, C., Ounis, I., Plachouras, V., Ruthven I. and White, R.W. (eds.) Advances in information retrieval: proceedings of the 30th European conference on information retrieval (IR) research (ECIR 2008), 30 March - 3 April 2008, Glasgow, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 4956. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 547-554. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_54

In document retrieval using pseudo relevance feedback, after initial ranking, a fixed number of top-ranked documents are selected as feedback to build a new expansion query model. However, very little attention has been paid to an intuitive but criti... Read More about Robust query-specific pseudo feedback document selection for query expansion..

Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
LIU, H., SONG, D., RUGER, S., HU, R. and UREN, V. 2008. Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Li, H., Liu, T., Ma, W.-Y., Sakai, T., Wong, K.-F. and Zhou, G. (eds.) Information retrieval technology: revised selected papers from the proceedings of the 4th Asia information retrieval symposium (AIRS 2008), 15-18 January 2008, Harbin, China. Lecture notes in computer science, 4993. Berlin: Springer [online], pages 44-50. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68636-1_5

Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feature spaces. Given the large number of dissimilarity measures that exist in many... Read More about Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval..

A novel metadata based meta-search engine. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
ZHU, J., SONG, D., EISENSTADT, M. and BARLADEANU, C. 2008. A novel metadata based meta-search engine. In Cordeiro, J., Shishkov, B., Ranchordas, A. and Helfert, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on software and data technologies (ICSOFT 2008), 5-8 July 2008, Porto, Portugal. Setúbal: Science and Technology Publications [online], volume 3, pages 312-315. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5220/0001896403120315

We present a novel meta-search engine called DYNIQX for metadata based cross search in order to study the effect of metadata in collection fusion. DYNIQX exploits the availability of metadata in academic search services such as PubMed and Google Scho... Read More about A novel metadata based meta-search engine..

Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
ASIIMWE, S., CRAW, S., WIRATUNGA, N. and TAYLOR, B. 2008. Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way. In Ellis, R., Allen, T. and Petridis, M. (eds.) Applications and innovations in intelligent systems XV: application proceedings of the 27th Annual international conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) (AI-2007): innovative techniques and applications of artificial intelligence, 10-12 December 2007, Cambridge, UK. London: Springer [online], pages 45-58. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-086-5_4

Acquiring case representations from textual sources remains an interesting challenge for CBR research. Approaches based on methods in information retrieval require large amounts of data and typically result in knowledge-poor representations. The cost... Read More about Automatically acquiring structured case representations: the SMART way..

Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. 2008. Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study. In Proceedings of the 2008 Requirements engineering education and training conference (REET 2008), 8 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain. Washington, D.C.: IEEE Computer Society [online], pages 38-44. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/REET.2008.8

End-user development has received a lot of attention in the research community. Despite the importance of requirements engineering in the software development life-cycle, comparatively little exists in the way of prescriptive advice or case studies o... Read More about Towards requirements engineering practice for professional end user developers: a case study..

Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
FAILY, S. and ŽIVNÝ, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference, October 2008, Oxford, UK. Oxford: Oxford University Computing Laboratory [online]. Available from: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/1328/RR-08-10.pdf

This conference serves two purposes. First, the event is a useful pedagogical exercise for all participants, from the conference committee and referees, to the presenters and the audience. For some presenters, the conference may be the first time the... Read More about Proceedings of the 2008 Oxford University Computing Laboratory student conference..

Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
CLARK, M., RUTHVEN, I. and O'BRIAN HOLT, P. 2008. Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling. In De Roeck, A., Song, D. and Kruschwitz, U. (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on corpus profiling for information retrieval and natural language profiling, 18 October 2008, London, UK. London: BCS [online]. Available from: https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/26114

This paper reports on our approach to the analysis of genre recognition using eyetracking. We focused on a collection of different types of email which could represent different datasets, such as, mailing lists for calls for papers, newsletters, etc.... Read More about Genre analysis of structured e-mails for corpus profiling..

Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
HU, R., RUGER, S., SONG, D., LIU, H. and HUANG, Z. 2008. Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE international conference on multimedia and expo (ICME 2008), 23-26 June 2008, Hannover, Germany. New York: IEEE [online], article number 4607697, pages 1365-1368. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICME.2008.4607697

Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval. In this paper, 16 core dissimilarity measures are introduced and evaluated. We carry out a systematic performance comparison on three image collections, Corel, Getty and... Read More about Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval..

A portable wireless-based architecture for solving minimum digital divide problems. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
FENU, G. and PIRAS, L. 2008. A portable wireless-based architecture for solving minimum digital divide problems. In Reznik, L. and Popescu, M. (eds.) Proceedings of 4th International conference on wireless and mobile communications 2008 (ICWMC 2008), 27 July - 1 August 2008, Athens, Greece. Piscataway: IEEE [online], pages 130-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/icwmc.2008.21

In today's society digital services have become the key to the success of anyone. Hence, for being competitive it is important that these services are available, employ the latest technology and are low cost. Unfortunately, it often happens that thes... Read More about A portable wireless-based architecture for solving minimum digital divide problems..

The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
HOENKAMP, E., BRUZA, P., HUANG, Q. and SONG, D. 2008. The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model. In Hoenkamp, E., De Cock, M. and Hoste, V. (eds.) Proceedings of 8th Dutch-Belgian information retrieval workshop 2008 (DIR 2008), 14-15 April 2008, Maastricht, Netherlands. Enschede: Neslia Paniculata, pages 59-64.

Intuitively, any ‘bag of words’ approach in IR should benefit from taking term dependencies into account. Unfortunately, for years the results of exploiting such dependencies have been mixed or inconclusive. To improve the situation, this paper shows... Read More about The asymptotic behavior of a limited dependencies language model..

The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
ZHU, J., SONG, D. and RUGER, S. 2007. The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track. In Proceedings of the 16th Text retrieval conference (TREC 2007), 5-9 November 2007, Gaithersburg, USA. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) special publications, SP 500-274. Gaithersburg: NIST [online], paper number 49. Available from: https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec16/papers/openu.ent.final.pdf

The Multimedia and Information Systems group at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University participated in the Expert Search and Document Search tasks of the Enterprise Track in TREC 2007. In both the document and expert search tasks, we ha... Read More about The Open University at TREC 2007 Enterprise Track..