A common requirement of many scientific applications is the ability to process queries involving expensive predicates corresponding to user programs. Optimizing such queries is ha...
Fabio Porto, Eduardo Sany Laber, Patrick Valduriez
Low level features of multimedia content often have limited power to discriminate a document’s relevance to a query. This motivated researchers to investigate other types of feat...
Pablo Bermejo, Hideo Joho, Joemon M. Jose, Robert ...
This paper presents a multiple description (MD) video codec based on the principles side-information coding. In particular, we highlight certain key components of the codec design...
Many ranking models have been proposed in information retrieval, and recently machine learning techniques have also been applied to ranking model construction. Most of the existin...
Xiubo Geng, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Andrew Arnold, H...
Organizations have become increasingly dependent on computing systems to achieve their business goals. The performance of these systems in terms of response times and cost has a m...
M. Qin, R. Lee, Asham El Rayess, Vidar Vetland, Je...