Reactive systems perform their tasks through interaction with their users or with other systems (as parts of a bigger system). An essential requirement for modeling such systems is...
Matching and registration of shapes is a key issue in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Medical Image Analysis. This paper presents a shape representation framework based ...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...