Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...
A popular approach to problems in image classification is to represent the image as a bag of visual words and then employ a classifier to categorize the image. Unfortunately, a si...
Liu Yang, Rong Jin, Caroline Pantofaru, Rahul Sukt...
The development of complex systems invariably involves many stakeholders who have different perspectives on the problem they are addressing, the system being developed, and the pr...
This paper addresses decentralized multi-project scheduling under uncertainty. The problem instance we study is the scheduling of airport ground handling services, where aircraft ...
Abstract—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing applications use multiple TCP connections between peers to transfer data. The aggressiveness and robustness of P2P technology remarkably...