This paper presents the algorithm and evaluation results of a face detection and tracking system. A tree-structured multi-view face detector trained by Vector Boosting is used as t...
Title of Thesis: DISTRIBUTED TRUST EVALUATION IN AD-HOC NETWORKS Georgios E. Theodorakopoulos, Master of Science, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor John S. Baras Department of El...
Abstract. We study here fundamental issues involved in top-k query evaluation in probabilistic databases. We consider simple probabilistic databases in which probabilities are asso...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
Modern enterprise applications are forced to deal with unreliable, inconsistent and imprecise information. Probabilistic databases can model such data naturally, but SQL query eva...