With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...
We consider the problem of large scale retrieval evaluation. Recently two methods based on random sampling were proposed as a solution to the extensive effort required to judge te...
Multi-document summarization aims to create a compressed summary while retaining the main characteristics of the original set of documents. Many approaches use statistics and mach...
Dingding Wang, Tao Li, Shenghuo Zhu, Chris H. Q. D...
—MDS array codes are widely used in storage systems to protect data against erasures. We address the rebuilding ratio problem, namely, in the case of erasures, what is the the fr...
We consider a fundamental problem in data structures, static predecessor searching: Given a subset S of size n from the universe [m], store S so that queries of the form “What i...