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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
GEOS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling Spatio-temporal Network Computations: A Summary of Results
Spatio-temporal network is defined by a set of nodes, and a set of edges, where the properties of nodes and edges may vary over time. Such networks are encountered in a variety of...
Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical spatial gossip for multi-resolution representations in sensor networks
In this paper we propose a lightweight algorithm for constructing multi-resolution data representations for sensor networks. We compute, at each sensor node u, O(log n) aggregates...
Rik Sarkar, Xianjin Zhu, Jie Gao
OTM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Parallelizing Tableaux-Based Description Logic Reasoning
Practical scalability of Description Logic (DL) reasoning is an important premise for the adoption of OWL in a real-world setting. Many highly efficient optimizations for the DL ta...
Thorsten Liebig, Felix Müller
VMCAI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Better Under-Approximation of Programs by Hiding Variables
Abstraction frameworks use under-approximating transitions in order to prove existential properties of concrete systems. Under-approximating transifer to the concrete states that c...
Thomas Ball, Orna Kupferman