Abstract. Design and development of information retrieval IR systems is a complex and expensive process. In the process of building an IR system, developers need to explore a lar...
This paper describes an autonomous robot system designed to solve the challenging task of geocaching. Geocaching involves locating a goal object in an outdoor environment given on...
James Neufeld, Michael Sokolsky, Jason Roberts, Ad...
In the last two decades, the barn owl, a nocturnal predator with accurate visual and auditory capabilities, has become a common experimental system for neuroscientists investigati...
Probabilistic database systems have successfully established themselves as a tool for managing uncertain data. However, much of the research in this area has focused on efficient...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...