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EDBT
2006
ACM
137views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
IQN Routing: Integrating Quality and Novelty in P2P Querying and Ranking
Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Evaluation measures act as objective functions to be optimized by information retrieval systems. Such objective functions must accurately reflect user requirements, particularly w...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. C...
ACAL
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Exploration of a Definition of Creative Novelty for Generative Art
Abstract. We explore a new definition of creativity -- one which emphasizes the statistical capacity of a system to generate previously unseen patterns -- and discuss motivations f...
Taras Kowaliw, Alan Dorin, Jon McCormack
SAB
2010
Springer
156views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Attentional Mechanisms for Lateral Line Sensing through Spectral Analysis
Abstract. For autonomy in underwater robotics it is essential to develop context-driven controllers, capable of leading from perception to action without human intervention. One of...
Otar Akanyeti, Maria-Camilla Fiazza, Paolo Fiorini
ICMCS
2007
IEEE
208views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
A Cognitive and Unsupervised Map Adaptation Approach to the Recognition of the Focus of Attention from Head Pose
In this paper, the recognition of the visual focus of attention (VFOA) of meeting participants (as defined by their eye gaze direction) from their head pose is addressed. To this ...
Jean-Marc Odobez, Sileye O. Ba