In Chinese, phrases and named entities play a central role in information retrieval. Abbreviations, however, make keyword-based approaches less effective. This paper presents an em...
We consider a multi-channel opportunistic communication system where the states of these channels evolve as independent and statistically identical Markov chains (the Gilbert-Elli...
Allocating scarce resources among agents to maximize global utility is, in general, computationally challenging. We focus on problems where resources enable agents to execute acti...
Optical Characters Recognition (OCR) has been an active subject of research since the early days of computers. Despite the age of the subject, it remains one of the most challengin...
Abstract--A research area that has become increasingly important in recent years is that of on-board mobile communication, where users on a vehicle are connected to a local network...