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CISS
2007
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Emitter Localization and Visualization (ELVIS): A Backward Ray Tracing Algorithm for Locating Emitters
— 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...
Aliye Özge Kaya, Larry J. Greenstein, Dmitry ...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Index for fast retrieval of uncertain spatial point data
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,...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
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...
ICDE
2003
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Keyword Proximity Search on XML Graphs
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...
Vagelis Hristidis, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Andrey...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
SmartSeer: Using a DHT to Process Continuous Queries Over Peer-to-Peer Networks
— 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, ...