It becomes more and more important to search for similar structures from molecular 3-D structure databases in the structural biology of the post genomic era. Two molecules are said...
The proliferation of video content on the web makes similarity detection an indispensable tool in web data management, searching, and navigation. In this paper, we propose a numbe...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Surveillance systems that operate continuously generate large volumes of data. One such system is described here, continuously tracking and storing observations taken from multiple...