Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services and w...
A basic problem in the management of web servers is capacity planning: you want enough capacity to be able to serve peak loads, but not too much so as to avoid excessive costs. It...
We introduce in this paper a generalization of the widely used hidden Markov models (HMM's), which we name "structural hidden Markov models" (SHMM). Our approach is ...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is known yet about its appropriateness for search i...
Structure analysis of table form documents is an important issue because a printed document and even an electronic document do not provide logical structural information but merely...