The main goal of this research is to produce a novel and efficient searching application by means of best match and proximity searching with particular application to very large numeric and textual data stores. In today's world a huge amount of information is produced. Almost ev…
The amount of non-English information has proliferated rapidly in recent years. The broad diversity of the multilingual content presents a substantial research challenge in the field of knowledge discovery and information retrieval. Therefore there is an increased interest in th…
Predator-prey interactions shape the natural histories of both species as each tries to adapt and counter-adapt to the tactics of the other. This important evolutionary dynamic is crucial for ecosystem formation and stability. Predation is a fundamental aspect of life for most o…
Since many Arabic documents are available only in print, automating retrieval from collections of scanned Arabic document images using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an important problem. This dissertation addresses retrieval of Arabic document images based on OCR, with …