Antennae are the main organs of the arthropod tactile sense. In contrast to other senses that are capable of retrieving spatial information, e.g. vision, spatial sampling of tactil...
The following source coding problem was introduced by Birk and Kol: a sender holds a word x ∈ {0, 1}n , and wishes to broadcast a codeword to n receivers, R1, . . . , Rn. The re...
Recently the re-ranking algorithms have been quite popular for web search and data mining. However, one of the issues is that those algorithms treat the content and link informati...
In a video database, large amount of information involving video, audio, and/or images needs to be stored and managed. Therefore, there is an important need for novel techniques a...
In this paper we describe our participation in CLEF-IP 2009 (prior art search task). This was the first year of the task and we focused on how to build effectively a prior art quer...