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EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Web-Scale Distributional Similarity and Entity Set Expansion
Computing the pairwise semantic similarity between all words on the Web is a computationally challenging task. Parallelization and optimizations are necessary. We propose a highly...
Patrick Pantel, Eric Crestan, Arkady Borkovsky, An...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Cooperative Communications with Relay Selection for QoS Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract--Cooperative communications have been demonstrated to be effective in combating the multiple fading effects in wireless networks, and improving the network performance in ...
Xuedong Liang, Ilangko Balasingham, Victor C. M. L...
ICARIS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Information-Theoretic Approach for Clonal Selection Algorithms
In this research work a large set of the classical numerical functions were taken into account in order to understand both the search capability and the ability to escape from a lo...
Vincenzo Cutello, Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Pavone, ...
ADHOC
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Design and analysis of a propagation delay tolerant ALOHA protocol for underwater networks
Acoustic underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSN) have recently gained attention as a topic of research. Such networks are characterized by increased uncertainty in medium acces...
Joon Ahn, Affan A. Syed, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, J...
TIFS
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
On the dynamic selection of biometric fusion algorithms
Biometric fusion consolidates the output of multiple biometric classifiers to render a decision about the identity of an individual. We consider the problem of designing a fusion s...
Mayank Vatsa, Richa Singh, Afzel Noore, Arun Ross