sites where I can perform a certain transaction, e.g. shop, download a file, or find a map). We explore this taxonomy of web searches and discuss how global search engines evolved to deal with web-specific needs.

in library generators like ATLAS, is to perform a global search over the space of parameter values by generating different versions of the code and executing them on the actual machine to find the parameter values that give the best performance. Neither approach is suitable for use in general

Abstract. Reinforcement learning policies face the exploration versus exploitation dilemma, i.e. the search for a balance between exploring the environment to find profitable actions while taking the empirically best action as often as possible. A popular measure of a policy’s success in addressing

location information (for instance, obtained using the global positioning system) to improve performance of routing protocols for ad hoc networks. By using location information, the proposed Location-Aided Routing (LAR) protocols limit the search for a new route to a smaller "request zone

, we can use information cost functionals defined for signals with normalized energy, since all expansions in a given library will conserve energy. Since two expansions will have the same energy globally, it is not necessary to normalize expansions to compare their costs. This feature greatly enlarges

Recent web search techniques augment traditional text matching with a global notion of "importance" based on the linkage structure of the web, such as in Google's PageRank algorithm. For more refined searches, this global notion of importance can be specialized to create personalized

. We report on a case study to assess the use of an advanced knowledge-based software design technique with programmers who have not participated in the technique's development. We use the KIDS approach to algorithm design to construct two global search algorithms that route baggage through a

We report on a case study to assess the use of an advanced knowledge-based software design technique to programmers who have not participated in the technique 's development. We use the KIDS approach to algorithm design to construct two global search algorithms that route baggage through a

Abstract. A model-independent global search for new physics has been performed at the CDF experiment. This search examines 399 final states, looking for discrepancies between observation and the standard model expectation in populations, kinematic shapes, bumps in mass distributions suggestive

Recent advances in communication and storage technology make available vast quantities of on-line information. But this information is of limited use unless it can be searched effectively. Huge scale and heterogeneity of data raise a unique combination of architectural issues that must be addressed