Abstract. Previous evaluations of server selection methods for federated search have either used metrics which are unconnected with user satisfaction, or have not been able to acco...
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...
Using visualization techniques to assist conventional data mining tasks has attracted considerable interest in recent years. This paper addresses a challenging issue in the use of...