homogenous charge compression ignition (hcci) engines hold promise of high fuel efficiency and low emission levels for future green vehicles. but in contrast to gasoline and diesel engines, hcci engines suffer from lack of having direct means to initiate combustion. a combustion timing controller with robust tracking performance is the key requirement to leverage hcci application in production ...

As the Web continues to increase in size, the relative coverage of Web search engines is decreasing, and search tools that combine the results of multiple search engines are becoming more valuable. This paper provides details of the text and image metasearch functions of the Inquirus search engine developed at the NEC Research Institute. For text metasearch, we describe features including the u...

Among the search tools currently on the Web, search engines are the most well known thanks to the popularity of major search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. While extremely successful, these major search engines do have serious limitations. This book introduces large-scale metasearch engine technology, which has the potential to overcome the limitations of the major search engines. Essential...

As the number of academic papers and new technologies soars, it has been increasingly difficult for researchers, especially beginners, to enter a new research field. Researchers often need to study a promising paper in depth to keep up with the forefront of technology. Traditional Query-Oriented study method is time-consuming and even tedious. For a given paper, existent academic search engines...

Number of published scholarly articles is growing exponentially. To tackle this information overload, researchers are increasingly depending on niche academic search engines. Recent works have shown that two major general web search engines: Google and Bing, have high level of agreement in their top search results. In contrast, we show that various academic search engines have low degree of agr...

My Ph.D. thesis focuses on the design of economic mechanisms inspired by sponsored search auctions to support new generation search engines. These engines (called integrators) are based on multi-domain queries and on the federation of multiple domain-specific search engines. The problem studied in my thesis is essentially a mechanism design problem where two levels are present: in the first, th...

The Deep Net refers to the thousands of topic-specific search engines on the Internet, including those that are inaccessible to traditional crawler-based search engines. Commercial metasearch engines have been slow to provide a simple, universal interface to these smaller topic-specific search engines. Turbo10 has developed a commercial metasearch engine that connects to these resources en mass...

A large amount of on-line information resides on the invisible web – web pages generated dynamically from databases and other data sources hidden from the user. They are not indexed by a static URL but is generated when queries are asked via a search interface (we denote them as specialized search engines). In this paper we propose a system that is capable of automatically making use of these s...