Abstract. Most existing search engines employ static ranking algorithms that do not adapt to the specific needs of users. Recently, some researchers have studied the use of clickth...
A new scheme of learning similarity measure is proposed for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). It learns a boundary that separates the images in the database into two parts. Im...
Guodong Guo, Anil K. Jain, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang ...
Abstract. In many application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, objects have to be compared based on positionally and existentially uncert...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
Abstract. We propose a new approach for enhancing collaborative information retrieval by means of incorporating positional data for a location-aware personalized retrieval process....
Andreas Behrend, Frank Reichartz, Christian Dorau,...
— The effectiveness of cluster-based distributed sensor networks depends to a large extent on the coverage provided by the sensor deployment. We propose a virtual force algorithm...