Sciweavers

869 search results - page 20 / 174
» Effective Use of Place Information for Event Tracking
Sort
View
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 2 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
VLDB
2000
ACM
102views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
15 years 5 months ago
Biodiversity Informatics Infrastructure: An Information Commons for the Biodiversity Community
This paper provides an overview of efforts to create an informatics infrastructure for the biodiversity community. A vast amount of biodiversity information exists, but no compreh...
Gladys A. Cotter, Barbara T. Bauldock
WSC
1997
15 years 2 months ago
Using Compensating Reconfiguration to Maintain Military Distributed Simulations
In Department of Defense (DoD) distributed training simulations, events occur that can cause unrealistic behavior. These events can be system events, such as the loss of a hostor ...
Donald J. Welch, James M. Purtilo
100
Voted
EDBT
2006
ACM
130views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 1 months ago
Querying and Updating Probabilistic Information in XML
Abstract. We present in this paper a new model for representing probabilistic information in a semi-structured (XML) database, based on the use of probabilistic event variables. Th...
Serge Abiteboul, Pierre Senellart
CIVR
2008
Springer
166views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
A probabilistic ranking framework using unobservable binary events for video search
Recent content-based video retrieval systems combine output of concept detectors (also known as high-level features) with text obtained through automatic speech recognition. This ...
Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Arjen P. de Vries, Fra...