In content-based image retrieval, relevance feedback has been introduced to narrow the gap between low-level image feature and high-level semantic concept. Furthermore, to speed u...
An under-explored question in cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) is to what degree the performance of CLIR methods depends on the availability of high-quality translation...
As network security is a growing concern, system administrators lock down their networks by closing inbound ports and only allowing outbound communication over selected protocols ...
We study several properties of sets that are complete for NP. We prove that if L is an NP-complete set and S ⊇ L is a p-selective sparse set, then L − S is ≤p m-hard for NP....
Aero engines are extremely reliable machines and operational failures are rare. However, currently great effort is being put into reducing the number of in-flight engine shutdowns,...
Max Ong, Xiaoxu Ren, J. Allan, Visakan Kadirkamana...