Many strategies have been proposed to address the problems associated with managing increasingly complex computing systems. IBM's Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigm is one suc...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Language-based information-flow analysis is promising in protecting data confidentiality. Although much work has been carried out in this area, relatively little has been done for ...
We consider the problem of visual categorization with minimal supervision during training. We propose a partbased model that loosely captures structural information. We represent ...
Many information retrieval systems use the inverted file as indexing structure. The inverted file, however, is not suited to supporting incremental updates when new documents are ...