The present article introduces the outdoor activity tour suggestion problem (OATSP). This problem involves finding a closed path of maximal attractiveness in a transportation network graph, given a target path length and tolerance. Total path attractiveness is evaluated as the sum of the average arc attractiveness and the sum of the vertex prizes in the path. This problem definition takes its r...

fter directing nearly a trillion dollars towards our ail-ing banks, insurance companies, and auto industry, the Obama administration has now pushed through a bill to spend just short of a trillion dollars to jump-start the rest of the economy. I am all for this. This recession has been devastating, and the sooner we get Americans back to work the better. But before all this money is allocated, ...

A class of search queries which contain abstract concepts are studied in this paper. These queries cannot be correctly interpreted by traditional keyword-based search engines. This paper presents a simple framework that detects and instantiates the abstract concepts by their concrete entities or meanings to produce alternate queries that yield better search results. 3

This paper presents the University of Amsterdam’s participation in the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion Track. In this research, we have studied a personallized neural document language modeling and a neural category preference modeling for contextual suggestion using available endorsements in TREC 2016 contextual suggestion track phase 2 requests. Specifically, our main aim is to answer the que...

After briefly reviewing the nature and status of suggestion schemes, the paper describes the significance of the paired concepts of “tacit and explicit knowledge” and “individual and collective knowledge” for suggestion schemes. It continues by considering the relationship of suggestion schemes to four ideal forms of organisation. This paper is grounded in fieldwork which has investigated both ...

participative management tries to help organizations to meet their goals and satisfy stakeholders to reach their purposes, and one of its subsystems is suggestion system which is a form of employee – to – management communication that benefit employees as well as employers. in iran and in relation to establishing participative management, the management and planning organization asked public or...

In addition to the positive and negative sentiments expressed by speakers, opinions on the web also convey suggestions. Such text comprise of advice, recommendations and tips on a variety of points of interest. We propose that suggestions can be extracted from the available opinionated text and put to several use cases. The problem has been identified only recently as a viable task, and there i...

a preparation presented for the relief of suffering humanity?at Rs. 2 per tin?by a philanthropic chemist, a preparation which the said explorer and big-game hunter guarantees to be an immediate cure for any human surgical ailment. Overleaf is a photograph of a famous cinema star, with shining regular teeth exposed to our admiring gaze in a broad expansive smile. Beneath this picture, the handso...