Most standard information retrieval models use a single source of information (e.g., the retrieval corpus) for query formulation tasks such as term and phrase weighting and query ...
Recommendation systems exist to help users discover content in a large body of items. An ideal recommendation system should mimic the actions of a trusted friend or expert, produc...
Many vertical search tasks such as local search focus on specific domains. The meaning of relevance in these verticals is domain-specific and usually consists of multiple well-d...
Changsung Kang, Xuanhui Wang, Yi Chang, Belle L. T...
Abstract— Body area networks (BANs) promise to enable revolutionary biomedical applications by wirelessly interconnecting devices implanted or worn by humans. However, BAN wirele...
Laura Galluccio, Tommaso Melodia, Sergio Palazzo, ...
—The IEEE 802.15.4 standard specifies an M-ary spread spectrum system with public and fixed spreading sequences. We propose instead to use secret and dynamic, random spreading ...
Bjorn Muntwyler, Vincent Lenders, Franck Legendre,...
—The recent arrival of 6LoWPAN, an IPv6 variant for low-power wireless devices, allows for the development of IPbased applications for low-power wireless networks like sensor net...
Marcel Bosling, Torsten Redmann, Jean Tekam, Elias...
The rapid growth of location-based applications has spurred extensive research on localization. Nonetheless, indoor localization remains an elusive problem mostly because the accu...
Souvik Sen, Romit Roy Choudhury, Srihari Nelakudit...
A growing class of smartphone applications are tasking applications that run continuously, process data from sensors to determine the user’s context (such as location) and activ...
Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balak...
Mobile technology has significant potential to help revolutionize personal wellness and the delivery of healthcare. Mobile phones, wearable sensors, and home-based tele-medicine ...
Jacob Sorber, Minho Shin, Ronald A. Peterson, Cory...