Purpose – This paper sets out to present the concept of the value of information, review the descriptive, rational, social and behavioral approaches for assessing the value of i...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
The number of patent documents is currently rising rapidly worldwide, creating the need for an automatic categorization system to replace time-consuming and labor-intensive manual...
Word form normalization through lemmatization or stemming is a standard procedure in information retrieval because morphological variation needs to be accounted for and several la...
Edge-based and region-based active contours are frequently used in image segmentation. While edges characterize small neighborhoods of pixels, region descriptors characterize entir...
Cristina Darolti, Alfred Mertins, Christoph Bodens...