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CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Abbreviated text input
We address the problem of improving the efficiency of natural language text input under degraded conditions (for instance, on PDAs or cell phones or by disabled users) by taking a...
Stuart M. Shieber, Ellie Baker
CISS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
On Capacity of Automatic Target Recognition Systems Under the Constraint of PCA-Encoding
Limiting capabilities of practical recognition systems are determined by a variety of factors that include source encoding techniques, quality of images, complexity of underlying ...
Xiaohan Chen, Natalia A. Schmid
ICECCS
2002
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Framework for Performability Modeling of Messaging Services in Distributed Systems
Messaging services are a useful component in distributed systems that require scalable dissemination of messages (events) from suppliers to consumers. These services decouple supp...
Srinivasan Ramani, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, K...
RECSYS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Global budgets for local recommendations
We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a new geotagging service, Gloe, that makes it easy to find, rate and recommend arbitrary on-line content in a mobile settin...
Thomas Sandholm, Hang Ung, Christina Aperjis, Bern...