… In this book, Vu, Lupu and Ooi present the technical challenges offered by P2P systems,
and the means that have been proposed to address them. They provide a thorough and …

Patent information retrieval is an economically important activity. Today’s economy is becoming
increasingly knowledge based and intellectual property in the form of patents plays a …

The patent system is designed to encourage disclosure of new technologies and novel ideas
by granting exclusive rights on the use of inventions to their inventors, for a limited period of …

Volatility prediction--an essential concept in financial markets--has recently been addressed
using sentiment analysis methods. We investigate the sentiment of annual disclosures of …

Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have been extremely present in
research and discussion, even in the public media, in the last few years. Without going into any …

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) is a modern imaging technique that enables
the in vivo or ex vivo characterization of skin lesions located in the epidermis and superficial …

The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval
and it was part of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. In 2010, the track continued as a …

This paper provides an overview of the Retrieving Diverse Social Images task that is organized
as part of the Media-Eval 2015 Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. The …

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most prevalent skin cancer in the Caucasian population.
A variety of different phenotypic presentations of BCC are possible. Although BCCs rarely …

With a constantly increasing incidence, cutaneous melanoma has raised the need for a better
understanding of its complex microenvironment that may further guide therapeutic options. …