Abstract. Advances in content-based image retrieval(CBIR)lead to numerous efficient techniques for retrieving images based on their content features, such as colours, textures and ...
Abstract. We study a model in which a group of agents make a sequence of collective decisions on whether to remain in the current state of the system or switch to an alternative st...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
Typically, users submit very simple search queries to digital document data collections. Often these queries can result in extremely broad answers or answers in which document rel...
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a multithreaded runtime library for parallel I/O. We extend the multi-threading concept to separate the compute and I/O tasks in t...
Sachin More, Alok N. Choudhary, Ian T. Foster, Min...