There has been substantial recent interest in captured design expertise expressed as design patterns. Prevalent descriptions of these design patterns suffer from two demerits. Firs...
We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
—The operation of widely-deployed random access to wireless networks is based on limited information on the result of each access attempt. When making a random access attempt, us...
—Handheld devices have become sufficiently powerful that it is easy to create, disseminate, and access digital content (e.g., photos, videos) using them. The volume of such cont...
In the area of image retrieval, post-retrieval processing is often used to refine the retrieval results to better satisfy users’ requirements. Previous methods mainly focus on p...