As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
Sensor networks have become an important source of data with numerous applications in monitoring various real-life phenomena as well as industrial applications and traffic contro...
Image clustering is useful in many retrieval and classification applications. The main goal of image clustering is to partition a given dataset into salient clusters such that the...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Modern database systems increasingly make use of networked storage. This storage can be in the form of SAN's or in the form of shared-nothing nodes in a cluster. One type of a...