Abstract— When multiple paths are available between communicating hosts, application quality can be improved by switching among them to always use the best one. The key to such a...
Although conventional database management systems are designed to tolerate hardware and to a lesser extent even software errors, they cannot protect themselves against syntactical...
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...
An e-Government portal represents not only a reputable public image of the sovereignty of a region, it is responsible for serving many users from local citizens and beyond, in a r...
This paper introduces a web image dataset created by NUS’s Lab for Media Search. The dataset includes: (1) 269,648 images and the associated tags from Flickr, with a total of 5,...