This paper concerns a fractional function of the form xT a/ xT Bx, where B is positive definite. We consider the game of choosing x from a convex set, to maximize the function, an...
The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
In this paper, we develop and test an approach to retrieving images from an image database based on content similarity. First, each picture is divided into many overlapping region...
Given a drug under development, what are other drugs or biochemical compounds that it might interact with? Early answers to this question, by mining the literature, are valuable f...
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...