The traditional SPM approach based on bag-of-features (BoF) must use nonlinear classifiers to achieve good image classification performance. This paper presents a simple but effec...
Arc-Consistency (AC) techniques have been used extensively in the study of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). These techniques are used to simplify the CSP before or during th...
sents some concluding remarks and discusses future work. This paper considers the problem of integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components into systems with high ...
Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra, Alexander B. Roman...
This text presents a set of reflections about the use of electronic publishing in African countries, as a means of access to scientific information. It includes brief remarks abou...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...