Searching for non-text data (e.g., images) is mostly done by means of metadata annotations or by extracting the text close to the data. However, supporting real content-based audi...
It is important and challenging to make the growing image repositories easy to search and browse. Image clustering is a technique that helps in several ways, including image data ...
Xin Zheng, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He, Wei-Ying Ma, Xuey...
We present a hybrid approach to Distributed Constraint Satisfaction which combines incomplete, fast, penalty-based local search with complete, slower systematic search. Thus, we pr...
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...
Most commonly used inductive rule learning algorithms employ a hill-climbing search, whereas local pattern discovery algorithms employ exhaustive search. In this paper, we evaluat...