The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...
Geographical context is very important for images. Millions of images on the Web have been already assigned latitude and longitude information. Due to the rapid proliferation of s...
We introduce Torsk, a structured peer-to-peer low-latency anonymity protocol. Torsk is designed as an interoperable replacement for the relay selection and directory service of th...
Jon McLachlan, Andrew Tran, Nicholas Hopper, Yongd...
Moving object databases (MOD) have gained much interest in recent years due to the advances in mobile communications and positioning technologies. Study of MOD can reveal useful i...
Roman Yarovoy, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshm...
Many natural processes exhibit exponential decay and, consequently, computational scientists make extensive use of e−x in computer simulation experiments. While it is common to ...