Abstract-- Classification hierarchies are trees where links codify the fact that a node lower in the hierarchy contains documents whose contents are more specific than those one le...
A novel native stochastic local search algorithm for solving k-term DNF problems is presented. It is evaluated on hard k-term DNF problems that lie on the phase transition and com...
We present a novel language-model-based approach to reranking an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. Our model integrates whole-document information ...
In content based image retrieval, the success of any distance-based indexing scheme depends critically on the quality of the chosen distance metric. We propose in this paper a ker...
As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as time-series, multimedia and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retrieval of mult...