Abstract: Adaptive behavior and learning are required of software agents in many application domains. At the same time agents are often supposed to be resource-bounded systems, whi...
Test collections are the primary drivers of progress in information retrieval. They provide a yardstick for assessing the effectiveness of ranking functions in an automatic, rapi...
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, Jimmy L...
Support vector machines (SVMs) have been widely used in multimedia retrieval to learn a concept in order to find the best matches. In such a SVM active learning environment, the ...
The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource d...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
The world is covered with millions of webcams. Some are private, but many transmit everything in their field of view over the internet 24 hours a day. A web search finds public we...
Yael Pritch, Alex Rav-Acha, Avital Gutman, Shmuel ...