Abstract-- In peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, reputation aggregation and peer ranking are the most time-consuming and spacedemanding operations. This paper proposes a gossip-based rep...
Abstract. Search engines traditionally index unstructured text and return ranked lists of documents that match a given query. As search engines functionally move in the direction o...
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
Abstract. We present an appearance-based 3D hand posture estimation method that determines a ranked set of possible hand posture candidates from an unmarked hand image, based on an...
Abstract. We propose measures for compressed data structures, in which space usage is measured in a data-aware manner. In particular, we consider the fundamental dictionary problem...