Geographic Information Retrieval is concerned with retrieving documents in response to a spatially related query. This paper addresses the ranking of documents by both textual and spatial relevance. To this end, we introduce distributed ranking, where similar documents are ranked spread in the list instead of consecutively. The effect of this is that documents close together in the ranked list ...

Queries submitted to a retrieval system are often ambiguous. In such a situation, a sensible strategy is to diversify the ranking of results to be retrieved, in the hope that users will find at least one of these results to be relevant to their information need. In this paper, we introduce xQuAD, a novel framework for search result diversification that builds such a diversified ranking by expli...

introduction: the aim of the present study is to show regional disparities in iran through measurement of the level of development of different provinces with respect to their accessibility to the health and medicare facilities. methods: to accomplish the above mentioned purpose, data regarding 18 health and medicare indexes for the years 2006-2008, have been collected. the quantified methods s...

Object ranking refers to the problem of learning to order a set of objects, each object described by an attribute tuple. Label ranking refers to the problem of learning to order a set of objects, each object only described by a nominal label; the order depends on a context, which is represented by an attribute tuple. The present work seeks to unify both approaches through the means of problem d...

The main approach of this study is to provide solutions to managers, economists, and tax auditors. To have a clearer perspective of the transactional relationships that distress the taxpayer transaction tax also help them to choose the best strategy to improve tax revenue. In this paper the fuzzy Delphi method was used to identify the indicators affecting suspicious bank accounts. The data coll...