The common vision of pervasive computing environments requires a very large range of devices and software components to interoperate seamlessly. From the assumption that these dev...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
The Web has become the world’s largest information source. Unfortunately, the main success factor of the Web, the inherent principle of distribution and autonomy of the participa...
When a program uses Software Transactional Memory (STM) to synchronize accesses to shared memory, the performance often depends on which STM implementation is used. Implementation...
We present an approach to visual object-class recognition and segmentation based on a pipeline that combines multiple, holistic figure-ground hypotheses generated in a bottom-up,...