The Workshop on Aggregated seeks to define the research problems for aggregated search results, and to build a community of researchers working in this emerging area. Aggregated search addresses the issues of how to select and rank resources, how to present them to a user in such a way that information can be found efficiently and effectively. The aim of the workshop was to encourage discussion...

Homology search is one of the most ubiquitous bioinformatic tasks, yet it is unknown how effective the currently available tools are for identifying noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). In this work, we use reliable ncRNA data sets to assess the effectiveness of methods such as BLAST, FASTA, HMMer, and Infernal. Surprisingly, the most popular homology search methods are often the least accurate. As a resul...

A general overview of our methodology and results for the INEX 2014 Social Book Search Suggestion Task are presented in this paper. This is our first entry in the Social Book Search Track, which started in 2011. Our methodology and experiments are inspired by background research on the Social Book Search Track [5, 6, 7, 8, and 9]. We originally submitted six runs to the INEX 2014 competition an...

Increasingly web is used for tracking numerous information pieces of large and complex data. Normal way of accessing these sources using web search engines has many limitations and we have enough literature to document them. This study is an enhancement to trap the discovery of targeted information pieces which are normally failed cases in search engines. We use an integrated approach of conven...

The conjugate gradient is a useful tool in solving large- and small-scale unconstrained optimization problems. In addition, the method can be applied many fields, such as engineering, medical research, computer science. this paper, convex combination of two different search directions proposed. new satisfies sufficient descent condition convergence analysis. Moreover, formula properties with pr...

cost optimization of the reinforced concrete cantilever soil retaining wall of a given height satisfying some structural and geotechnical design constraints is performed utilizing harmony search and improved harmony search algorithms. the objective function considered is the cost of the structure, and design is based on aci 318-05. this function is minimized subjected to design constraints. a n...