Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Many important problems involve clustering large datasets. Although naive implementations of clustering are computationally expensive, there are established efficient techniques f...
A fast simulatedannealingalgorithmis developed for automatic object recognition. The object recognition problem is addressed as the problem of best describing a match between a hy...
Communicationin aparallel systemfrequently involvesmoving data from the memory of one node to the memory of another; this is the standard communication model employedin message pa...
Real-world data is known to be imperfect, suffering from various forms of defects such as sensor variability, estimation errors, uncertainty, human errors in data entry, and gaps ...