Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
An important investigation of time series involves searching for \movement" patterns, such as \going up" or \going down" or some combinations of them. Movement patt...
The Relational On-Line Analytical Processing (ROLAP) is emerging as thedominant approach in data warehousing with decision support applications. In order to enhance query performa...
Computing shadow boundaries is a difficult problem in the case of non-point light sources. A point is in the umbra if it does not see any part of any light source; it is in full l...
We address the problem of parameter estimation in presence
of both uncertainty and outlier noise. This is a common
occurrence in computer vision: feature localization
is perform...