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MM
2009
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Using large-scale web data to facilitate textual query based retrieval of consumer photos
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Yiming Liu, Dong Xu, Ivor W. Tsang, Jiebo Luo
AGENTS
2001
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Matchmaking among minimal agents without a facilitator
Multi-Agent Systems are a promising way of dealing with large complex problems. However, it is not yet clear just how much complexity or pre-existing structure individual agents m...
Elth Ogston, Stamatis Vassiliadis
AIEDAM
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Biomimetic design through natural language analysis to facilitate cross-domain information retrieval
Biomimetic, or biologically inspired, design uses analogous biological phenomena to develop solutions for engineering problems. Several instances of biomimetic design result from ...
Ivey Chiu, L. H. Shu
IADIS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Query-Based Indexing in Collaorative Search
The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Reasoning and identifying relevant matches for XML keyword search
Keyword search is a user-friendly mechanism for retrieving XML data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches t...
Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen