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ICPR
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Nanometer-Scale Height Measurements in Micromachined Picoliter Vials Based on Interference Fringe Analysis
Micromachined picoliter vials in silicon dioxide with a typical depth of 6.0?m are filled with a liquid sample. Epiilluminated microscopic imaging during evaporation of the liquid...
L. R. Van den Doel, Lucas J. van Vliet, K. T. Hjel...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Newsjunkie: providing personalized newsfeeds via analysis of information novelty
We present a principled methodology for filtering news stories by formal measures of information novelty, and show how the techniques can be used to custom-tailor newsfeeds based ...
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Gravitation-based model for information retrieval
This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from c...
Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen, Qing Yu, Ruihua Song, We...
COCO
2003
Springer
162views Algorithms» more  COCO 2003»
14 years 18 days ago
Near-Optimal Lower Bounds on the Multi-Party Communication Complexity of Set Disjointness
We study the communication complexity of the set disjointness problem in the general multi-party model. For t players, each holding a subset of a universe of size n, we establish ...
Amit Chakrabarti, Subhash Khot, Xiaodong Sun
VLDB
1998
ACM
108views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
MindReader: Querying Databases Through Multiple Examples
Users often can not easily express their queries. For example, in a multimedia image by content setting, the user might want photographs with sunsets; in current systems, like QBI...
Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Ravishankar Subramanya, Christ...