Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
The k-means algorithm is the method of choice for clustering large-scale data sets and it performs exceedingly well in practice. Most of the theoretical work is restricted to the c...
Abstract. An algorithm for simulating diffuse interreflection in complex three dimensional scenes is described. It combines techniques from hierarchical radiosity and multiresolut...
Andrew J. Willmott, Paul S. Heckbert, Michael Garl...
Metadata descriptions of database contents are required to build and use systems that access and deliver data in response to user requests. When numerous heterogeneous databases a...
Eduard H. Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ul...
Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...