The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collect...
For its high overall cost during product development, program debugging is an important aspect of system development. Debugging is a hard and complex activity, especially in time-...
Abstract— This paper explores integrated source-channel decoding, driven by wireless sensor network applications where correlated information acquired by the network is gathered ...
Important design problems are raised in developing software for amateur users, a group distinguished here from novices. The authors argue that these design problems can be approac...
Knowing the number of residue contacts in a protein is crucial for deriving constraints useful in modeling protein folding, protein structure, and/or scoring remote homology searc...