Methods for content-based similarity search are fundamental for managing large multimedia repositories, as they make it possible to conduct queries for similar content, and to orga...
Benjamin Bustos, Daniel A. Keim, Dietmar Saupe, To...
We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
In this paper, we present the parallelization of tabu search on a network of workstations using PVM. Two parallelization strategies are integrated: functional decomposition strate...
Ahmad A. Al-Yamani, Sadiq M. Sait, Habib Youssef, ...
Sponsored search mechanisms have drawn much attention from both academic community and industry in recent years since the seminal papers of [3] and [4]. However, most of the exist...
We present a tool that can efficiently facilitate interactive navigation and search in videos. In addition to browsing a video by shots it also allows a user to navigate through a...