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ICMCS
2006
IEEE
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16 years 12 days ago
On Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Content Access and Distribution
This paper provides a brief overview of recent progress of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies for multimedia applications. We provide an overview of the technical challenges, creativ...
Zhu Liu, Heather Yu, Deepa Kundur, Madjid Merabti
ENC
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
QA on the Web: A Preliminary Study for Spanish Language
Finding accurate information on the web has become a challenge due to the increment in the number of documents available on line. Current search engines retrieve relevant document...
Alejandro Del-Castillo-Escobedo, Manuel Montes-y-G...
WSC
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Global Likelihood Optimization Via the Cross-Entropy Method, with an Application to Mixture Models
Global likelihood maximization is an important aspect of many statistical analyses. Often the likelihood function is highly multi-extremal. This presents a significant challenge t...
Zdravko I. Botev, Dirk P. Kroese
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy and Personalization
Online services such as web search, news portals, and ecommerce applications face the challenge of providing highquality experiences to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent ef...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz
DSS
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
CMedPort: An integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking
As the number of non-English resources available on the Web is increasing rapidly, developing information retrieval techniques for non-English languages is becoming an urgent and ...
Yilu Zhou, Jialun Qin, Hsinchun Chen