In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
The inherent instability and unreliability of peer-to-peer networks introduce several fundamental engineering challenges to multimedia streaming over peer-to-peer networks. First,...
A novel nonlinear discriminant analysis method, Kernelized Decision Boundary Analysis (KDBA), is proposed in our paper, whose Decision Boundary feature vectors are the normal vecto...
In this paper we study the problem of finding most topical named entities among all entities in a document, which we refer to as focused named entity recognition. We show that th...
Abstract. Interactive systems combine a human operator with a computer. Either may be a source of error. The veri cation processes used must ensure both the correctness of the comp...