We describe our experiments for the Image CLEF medical retrieval task. Our efforts were focused on the initial visual search. A content based approach was followed. We used textur...
Peter Howarth, Alexei Yavlinsky, Daniel Heesch, St...
This paper addresses the question of selecting an algorithm from a predefined set that will have the best performance on a scheduling problem instance. Our goal is to reduce the e...
Abstract. Exponentiation is a central process in many public-key cryptosystems such as RSA and DH. This paper introduces the concept of self-randomized exponentiation as an efficie...
The informative vector machine (IVM) is a practical method for Gaussian process regression and classification. The IVM produces a sparse approximation to a Gaussian process by com...
Neil D. Lawrence, John C. Platt, Michael I. Jordan
This paper describes the Mediating Agent, an animated pedagogical agent inserted in a computational system for distance learning, which has the goal of motivating the student to le...