The POEMS project is creating an environment for end-to-end performance modeling of complex parallel and distributed systems, spanning the domains of application software, runti...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
Abstract. Accurately evaluating statistical independence among random variables is a key component of Independent Component Analysis (ICA). In this paper, we employ a squared-loss ...
Abstract— We consider the problem of Decentralized Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (DSLAM) for pedestrians in the context of Urban Search And Rescue (USAR). In this context...