There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's re...
Scripting languages enjoy great popularity due their support for rapid and exploratory development. They typically have lightweight syntax, weak data privacy, dynamic typing, powe...
Bard Bloom, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, Johan &...
This paper proposes a hash function family based on feature vocabularies and investigates the application in building indexes for image search. Each hash function is associated wi...
This paper analyzes the potential advantages and theoretical challenges of “active learning” algorithms. Active learning involves sequential sampling procedures that use infor...
As current Voice-over-IP (VoIP) systems encourage a direct communication between the callees they are similar in design to peerto-peer (P2P) approaches. Therefore, we introduce a f...