In this paper, we address the problem of designing a scalable, accurate query processor for peerto-peer filesharing and similar distributed keyword search systems. Using a global...
Boon Thau Loo, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Ryan Huebsch...
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Fusion of multiple face and fingerprint matchers based on different biometrics for personal authentication has been investigated in the last years. However, the performance achiev...
This paper introduces an ant-based colony system for the representation of a verbal route description. It is grounded on a natural metaphor that mimics the behavior of ant colonie...
This paper addresses the problem of speaker segmentation in two-speaker telephone conversations, using an eigenvoice based factor analysis approach. We present a set of improvemen...