Applying Optimal Stopping for Optimizing Queries to External Semantic Web Resources

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Weichselbraun, Albert. (2009). Applying Optimal Stopping for Optimizing Queries to External Semantic Web Resources. Software and Data Technologies, Berlin-Heidelberg:Springer:105-118

Abstract

Semantic Web resources based on ideas originally proposed by MacQueen for optimal stopping in business economics. Modeling applications as decision makers looking for optimal action/answer sets, facing search costs for acquiring information, test costs for checking these information, and receiving a reward depending on the usefulness of the proposed solution, yields strategies for optimizing queries to external services. An extensive evaluation compares these strategies to a conventional coverage based approach, based on real world response times taken from popular Web services.

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