—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
The emergence of general audience digital libraries (GADLs) defines a context that represents a hybrid of both ``traditional'' IR, using primarily bibliographic resource...
Optical scan voting is considered by many to be the most trustworthy option for conducting elections because it provides an independently verifiable record of each voter’s inte...
Daniel P. Lopresti, George Nagy, Elisa H. Barney S...
We describe a new method for performing a nonlinear form of Principal Component Analysis. By the use of integral operator kernel functions, we can e ciently compute principal comp...