Recently, content based 3D shape retrieval has been an active area of research. Benchmarking allows researchers to evaluate the quality of results of different 3D shape retrieval approaches. Here, we propose a new publicly available 3D shape benchmark to advance the state of art in 3D shape retrieval. We provide a review of previous and recent benchmarking efforts and then discuss some of the i...

To better meet users’ underlying navigational requirement, search engines like Baidu has developed general recommendation engine and provided related entities on the right side of the search engine results page(SERP). However, users’ behavior have not been well investigated after the association of individual queries in search engine. To better understand users’ navigational activities, we prop...

Users of web search engines are known to mostly focus on the top ranked results of the search engine result page. While many studies support this well known information seeking pattern only few studies concentrate on the question what users are missing by neglecting lower ranked results. To learn more about the relevance distributions in the so-called long tail we conducted a relevance assessme...

In this issue of the Health Care Financ­ ing Review, we focus on the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of cancer survi­ vors who are enrolled in Medicare man­ aged care (MMC). Over the past few years, NCI and CMS have been collaborat­ ing on the creation of a surveillance data set that links data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer registry program with the e...

and the third study is described for the first time in this article. These studies reveal how users view the ranked results on a search engine results page (SERP), the relationship between the search result abstracts viewed and those clicked on, and whether gender, search task, or search engine influence these behaviors. In addition, we discuss a key challenge that arose in all three studies th...

In this paper we present a novel approach, called Concept Search, which extends syntactic search, i.e., search based on the computation of string similarity between words, with semantic search, i.e., search based on the computation of semantic relations between concepts. The key idea of Concept Search is to operate on complex concepts and to maximally exploit the semantic information available,...

A command-line tool and Python framework is proposed for the exploration of a new form of audio synthesis known as ‘concatenative synthesis’, a form of synthesis that uses perceptual audio analyses to arrange small segments of audio based on their characteristics. The tool is designed to synthesise representations of an input target sound using a source database of sounds. This involves the seg...

The model-driven engineering paradigm is a paradigm that combines the power of concepts and its relations, using abstracts models in order to offer suitable mechanisms for software development. In fact, software engineering community has applied MDE in different contexts of software engineering, getting suitable results. Despite these mechanisms, both global coordination and effective managemen...

The Min-Hashing approach to sketching has become an important tool in data analysis, search, and classi cation. To apply it to real-valued datasets, the ICWS algorithm has become a seminal approach that is widely used, and provides state-of-the-art performance for this problem space. However, ICWS su ers a computational burden as the sketch size K increases. We develop a new Simpli ed approach ...