Sciweavers

249 search results - page 39 / 50
» A Monotonicity Principle for Information Theory
Sort
View
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Attention-based design of augmented reality interfaces
The objects and surfaces of a task-based environment can be layered with digital interfaces to make them easier and safer to use. Once information can be projected anywhere in the...
Leonardo Bonanni, Chia-Hsun Lee, Ted Selker
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Exploration scavenging
We examine the problem of evaluating a policy in the contextual bandit setting using only observations collected during the execution of another policy. We show that policy evalua...
John Langford, Alexander L. Strehl, Jennifer Wortm...
WSDM
2010
ACM
215views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Boilerplate Detection using Shallow Text Features
In addition to the actual content Web pages consist of navigational elements, templates, and advertisements. This boilerplate text typically is not related to the main content, ma...
Christian Kohlschütter, Peter Fankhauser, Wol...
ICMCS
2006
IEEE
121views Multimedia» more  ICMCS 2006»
14 years 3 months ago
An Optimal Non-Uniform Scalar Quantizer for Distributed Video Coding
In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to design an optimal non-uniform scalar quantizer for distributed video coding, which aims at achieving a coding rate close to joint co...
Bo Wu, Xun Guo, Debin Zhao, Wen Gao, Feng Wu