Many visual search and matching systems represent images using sparse sets of "visual words": descriptors that have been quantized by assignment to the best-matching symb...
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
The goal of IT governance is not only to achieve internal efficiency in an IT organization, but also to support IT's role as a business enabler. The latter is here denoted IT...
As web search providers seek to improve both relevance and response times, they are challenged by the ever-increasing tax of automated search query traffic. Third party systems in...
Gregory Buehrer, Jack W. Stokes, Kumar Chellapilla
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to try to understand the structure of time in information technologies. Starting with historical arguments, it first shows that time is neither l...