Most present day search engines have a deterministic behavior in the sense that they return the same search results for all users who submit the same query at a certain time. They...
Kapil Goenka, Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Mustafa Nur...
We propose a scene classification method, which combines two popular methods in the literature: Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM) and probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (pLSA) mod...
Abstract--This paper considers the problem of key management in wireless networks. In particular, we investigate the effect of dynamic key compromise and recovery on connectivity i...
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a s...
Navin Sharma, Jeremy Gummeson, David Irwin, Prasha...
The current search engine model considers users not trustworthy, so no tools are provided to let them specify what they are looking for or in what context, which severely limits wh...