— We consider the problem of distributing a content of finite size to a group of users connected through an overlay network that is built by a peer-to-peer application. The goal...
E-mail services are essential in the Internet. However, the basic e-mail architecture presents problems that opens it to several threats. Alternatives have been proposed to solve ...
In many signal processing problems, it may be fruitful to represent the signal under study in a redundant linear decomposition called a frame. If a probabilistic approach is adopt...
We propose a new method to partition an unlabeled dataset, called Discriminative Context Partitioning (DCP). It is motivated by the idea of splitting the dataset based only on how...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...