In many market settings, agents do not know their preferences a priori. Instead, they may have to solve computationally complex optimization problems, query databases, or perform ...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
In this paper we present the results of a user study that was conducted in combination with a submission to TRECVID 2003. Search behavior of students querying an interactive video-...
Laura Hollink, Giang P. Nguyen, Dennis Koelma, A. ...
This paper is motivated by the problem of poor searching efficiency in decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. We solve the searching problem by considering and modeling t...
Xuezheng Liu, Guangwen Yang, Jinfeng Hu, Ming Chen...
: Modeling the characteristics of specific images and individual users is a critical issue in content-based image retrieval but insufficiently addressed by the current retrieval ap...