Persistent programming languages are targetted primarily at application systems involving complex data structures and relationships, as typi ed by Geographical Information Systems...
Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...
The use of recommender systems in e-commerce to guide customer choices presents a privacy protection problem that is twofold. We seek to protect the privacy interests of customers...
Decentralized control of a cooperative multi-agent system is the problem faced by multiple decision-makers that share a common set of objectives. The decision-makers may be robots...
We consider the problem of evaluating retrieval systems using a limited number of relevance judgments. Recent work has demonstrated that one can accurately estimate average precis...