In this paper, we propose a tree-based multidimensional structure, GeM-Tree, which indexes both images and videos within a single general framework utilizing Earth Mover’s Dista...
This paper presents an approach and a tool to increase specification quality by using a combination of UML and formal languages. Our approach is based on the expression of the UML ...
Governments are increasingly using collaborative, cross-boundary strategies to face complex social problems. Many of these cross-boundary initiatives have at their core the use, a...
This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
We present a new systematic method of structuring information using mental models. This method can be used both to evaluate the efficiency of an information structure and to build...
Ishantha Lokuge, Stephen A. Gilbert, Whitman Richa...