Weblog has quickly evolved into a new information and knowledge dissemination channel. Yet it is not easy to discover weblog communities through keyword search. The main contribut...
We address the problem of scalable distributed reasoning, proposing a technique for materialising the closure of an RDF graph based on MapReduce. We have implemented our approach o...
Jacopo Urbani, Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank v...
Many natural textures comprise structural patterns and show strong self-similarity. We use affine symmetry to segment an image into self-similar regions; that is a patch of textu...
Taking advantage of the well-known cluster hypothesis that “closely associated documents tend to be relevant to the same request”, we can use inter-document similarity to prov...
For difficult prediction problems, practitioners often segment the data into relatively homogenous groups and then build a model for each group. This two-step procedure usually res...