Due to the reliance on the textual information associated with an image, image search engines on the Web lack the discriminative power to deliver visually diverse search results. ...
Reinier H. van Leuken, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Ximena ...
Highly educated immigrants face many barriers to employment in Canada, especially in acquiring jobs at the same level as those they had held prior to migration. This exploratory s...
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
Peer-to-peer systems have emerged as a popular way to share huge volumes of data. The usability of these systems depends on effective techniques to find and retrieve data; howeve...
This paper presents two metrics for the Nearest Neighbor Classifier that share the property of being adapted, i.e. learned, on a set of data. Both metrics can be used for similari...