— We present ELVIS, a new approach for localizing a first responder (e.g., firefighter) inside a building. We assume that the first responder emits RF energy, which undergoes...
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
XKeyword provides efficient keyword proximity queries on large XML graph databases. A query is simply a list of keywords and does not require any schema or query language knowledg...
— As the academic world moves away from physical journals and proceedings towards online document repositories, the ability to efficiently locate work of interest among the torr...
Jayanthkumar Kannan, Beverly Yang, Scott Shenker, ...