Hundreds of millions of users each day submit queries to the Web search engine. The user queries are typically very short which makes query understanding a challenging problem. In...
Tuning tools attempt to configure a database to achieve optimal performance for a given workload. Selecting an optimal set of physical structures is computationally hard since it ...
Ioannis Alagiannis, Debabrata Dash, Karl Schnaitte...
In most modern video games, content (e.g. models, levels, weapons, etc.) shipped with the game is static and unchanging, or at best, randomized within a narrow set of parameters. ...
Erin J. Hastings, Ratan K. Guha, Kenneth O. Stanle...
Ensuring the uniqueness of trademark images and protecting their identities are the most important objectives for the trademark registration process. To prevent trademark infringe...
Reinier H. van Leuken, M. Fatih Demirci, Victoria ...
A good distance metric is crucial for many data mining tasks. To learn a metric in the unsupervised setting, most metric learning algorithms project observed data to a lowdimensio...