This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
To take full advantage of the parallelism offered by a multicore machine, one must write parallel code. Writing parallel code is difficult. Even when one writes correct code, the...
John Cieslewicz, Kenneth A. Ross, Kyoho Satsumi, Y...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Most of today’s course generation does not allow an in-depth, generic representation of pedagogical knowledge. However, supporting individual learners with different goals requi...
Action recognition is an important but challenging problem in video analytics with a number of solutions proposed to date. However, even if a reliable model for action representat...