—This paper focuses on Audio Event Detection (AED), a research area which aims to substantially enhance the access to audio in multimedia content. With the ever-growing quantity ...
Virginia Barbosa, Thomas Pellegrini, Miguel Bugalh...
We study the problem of context-sensitive ranking for document retrieval, where a context is defined as a sub-collection of documents, and is specified by queries provided by do...
Abstract. Many applications with large data spaces that cannot run on a typical workstation (due to page faults) call for techniques to expand the effective memory size. One such t...
Background: A widely-used approach for discovering functional and physical interactions among proteins involves phylogenetic profile comparisons (PPCs). Here, proteins with simila...
This paper presents a new approach to improve performance of Java programs by extending the superthreaded speculative execution model [14, 15] to exploit coarsegrained parallelism...