Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
The Corner Table (CT) promoted by Rossignac et al. provides a simple and efficient representation of triangle meshes, storing 6 integer references per triangle (3 vertex reference...
A multi-object operation incurs communication or synchronization overhead when the requested objects are distributed over different nodes. The object pair correlations (the probab...
The increasing centralization of networked services places user data at considerable risk. For example, many users store email on remote servers rather than on their local disk. D...
Adam J. Aviv, Michael E. Locasto, Shaya Potter, An...