127 views157 votes15 years 5 months ago SIGMOD 2002»
Workflow management systems (WFMS) that are geared for the orchestration of business processes across multiple organizations are complex distributed systems: they consist of multi...
157 views148 votes15 years 4 months ago ICASSP 2010»
Bag-of-visual Words (BoW) image representation is getting popular in computer vision and multimedia communities. However, experiments show that the traditional BoW representation ...
132 views151 votes15 years 4 months ago JAIR 2010»
This paper discusses the problem of marrying structural similarity with semantic relatedness for Information Extraction from text. Aiming at accurate recognition of relations, we ...
162 views168 votes15 years 3 months ago PKDD 2010»
In this paper we propose a Bayesian model for multi-task feature selection. This model is based on a generalized spike and slab sparse prior distribution that enforces the selectio...
Abstract User-centered design is often performed without regard to individual user differences. In this paper, we report results of an empirical study aimed to evaluate whether com...
230 views148 votes15 years 3 months ago SENSYS 2010»
Localization is a fundamental issue of wireless sensor networks that has been extensively studied in the literature. The real-world experience from GreenOrbs, a sensor network sys...
197 views181 votes15 years 2 months ago ICIAR 2010»
Image segmentation is a critical low-level visual routine for robot perception. However, most image segmentation approaches are still too slow to allow real-time robot operation. I...
Occlusion reasoning is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to recover the occlusion boundaries and depth ordering of free-standing str...
105 views149 votes15 years 13 days ago COGSR 2011»
We present an application of the analytical inductive programming system Igor to learning sets of recursive rules from positive experience. We propose that this approach can be us...
The idea of utilizing the rich potential of today's computer games for educational purposes excites educators, scientists and technicians. Despite the significant hype over di...