Pattern matching in point sets is a well studied problem with numerous applications. We assume that the point sets may contain outliers (missing or spurious points) and are subjec...
NAND flash memory is fast becoming popular as a component of large scale storage devices. For workloads requiring many random I/Os, flash devices can provide two orders of magnitu...
People rarely articulate explicitly what a native speaker of a language is already assumed to know. So to acquire the stereotypical knowledge that underpins much of what is said i...
Crowd-sourcing is a recent framework in which human intelligence tasks are outsourced to a crowd of unknown people ("workers") as an open call (e.g., on Amazon's Me...
In order to improve the user search experience, Query Suggestion, a technique for generating alternative queries to Web users, has become an indispensable feature for commercial s...