Ranking documents in a selected corpus plays an important role in information retrieval systems. Despite notable advances in this direction, with continuously accumulating text do...
Byung-Hoon Park, Nagiza F. Samatova, Rajesh Munava...
We present a novel hybrid approach for performance analysis of a system design. Unlike other approaches in this area, in this paper we do not focus on the determination of pessimi...
Alexander Viehl, Markus Schwarz, Oliver Bringmann,...
Image matting is the problem of determining for each pixel in an image whether it is foreground, background, or the mixing parameter, ”alpha”, for those pixels that are a mixt...
— A key step in many statistical learning methods used in machine learning involves solving a convex optimization problem containing one or more hyper-parameters that must be sel...
Kristin P. Bennett, Jing Hu, Xiaoyun Ji, Gautam Ku...
Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...