A virtual database system is software that provides unified access to multiple information sources. If the sources are overlapping in their contents and independently maintained,...
The transition of search engine users’ intents has been studied for a long time. The knowledge of intent transition, once discovered, can yield a better understanding of how di...
This paper presents a top-down approach to 3D data analysis by fitting a Morphable Model to scans of faces. In a unified framework, the algorithm optimizes shape, texture, pose an...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
BLID (Bio-Logical Intelligent Database) is a bioinformatic system designed to help biologists extract new knowledge from raw genome data by providing high-level facilities for both...