Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
—The number of real-world applications that require QoS guarantees is constantly increasing and they often follow the publish/subscribe (pub/sub) messaging paradigm, which provid...
Shuo Guo, Kyriakos Karenos, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei,...
Abstract—Opportunistic wireless channel access by nonlicensed users has emerged as a promising solution for addressing the bandwidth scarcity challenge. Auctions represent a natu...
Viola and Jones [VJ] demonstrate that cascade classification methods can successfully detect objects belonging to a single class, such as faces. Detecting and identifying objects t...
Ramana Isukapalli, Ahmed M. Elgammal, Russell Grei...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...