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ICTAI
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Query Expansion and Query Reduction in Document Retrieval
We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti, Yingying Wen
ADHOC
2008
96views more  ADHOC 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Network configuration for optimal utilization efficiency of wireless sensor networks
This paper addresses the problem of configuring wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Specifically, we seek answers to the following questions: how many sensors should be deployed, wha...
Yunxia Chen, Chen-Nee Chuah, Qing Zhao
FLAIRS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences from Internet Weblog Stories
One of the central problems in building broad-coverage story understanding systems is generating expectations about event sequences, i.e. predicting what happens next given some a...
Mehdi Manshadi, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
RECOMB
2009
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
A Robust Bayesian Two-Sample Test for Detecting Intervals of Differential Gene Expression in Microarray Time Series
Abstract. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms that are responsible for an organism's response to environmental changes is an important question in molecular biology. A fir...
Oliver Stegle, Katherine J. Denby, David L. Wild, ...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
115views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
The influence of DC electric drives on sizing quadruped robots
— In legged systems design an important question applies to: "What can be inferred from the performance of a legged robot of a similarly configured system, but scaled to a s...
Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos