Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different and often conflicting criteria are considered. Current skyline computation methods are rest...
Ping Wu, Caijie Zhang, Ying Feng, Ben Y. Zhao, Div...
This paper shows how to improve Hidden Conditional Random Fields (HCRFs) for phone classification by applying various speaker adaptation techniques. These include Maximum A Poste...
Yun-Hsuan Sung, Constantinos Boulis, Daniel Jurafs...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
A set of points shown on the map usually represents special sites like cities or towns in a country. If the map in the interactive geographical information system (GIS) is browsed ...
We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...