Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
The algorithm presented here, BCC, is an enhancement of the well known Backtrack used to solve constraint satisfaction problems. Though most backtrack improvements rely on propaga...
As large quantity of document images is getting archived by the digital libraries, there is a need for an efficient search strategies to make them available as per users informatio...
I consider the problem of finding all the modes of a mixture of multivariate Gaussian distributions, which has applications in clustering and regression. I derive exact formulas f...
Image retrieval based on content from digital libraries, multimedia databases, the Internet, and other sources has been an important problem addressed by several researchers. In t...