We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Text retrieval from broadcast news video is unsatisfactory, because a transcript word frequently does not directly ‘describe’ the shot when it was spoken. Extending the retriev...
ng Abstractions for Local Search Pascal Van Hentenryck1 and Laurent Michel2 1 Brown University, Box 1910, Providence, RI 02912 2 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3155 Ab...
The environment is an important but overlooked piece in the construction of multiagent-based scenarios. Richness, believability and variety of scenarios are inseparable from the en...
Paul Hsueh-Min Chang, Kuang-Tai Chen, Yu-Hung Chie...
It is a common human behavior to hold a small object of interest and to manipulate it for observation. A computer system, symbiotic with a human, should recognize the object and th...