Motivated by several applications, we introduce various distance measures between “top k lists.” Some of these distance measures are metrics, while others are not. For each of...
We describe our participation in both tasks in the 2003 TREC Genomics track. For the primary task we concentrated mainly upon query expansion and species-specific document search...
Miles Osborne, Mark Cuminskey, Gail Sinclair, Matt...
Recently, spectral clustering (a.k.a. normalized graph cut) techniques have become popular for their potential ability at finding irregularlyshaped clusters in data. The input to...
In order to transmit or store three-dimensional (3-D) mesh models efficiently, we need to simplify them. Although the quadric error metric (QEM) provides fast and accurate geometr...
Contour lines from topographic maps are still the most common form of elevation data for the Earth’s surface and in the case of historical landscapes, they often are the only av...