We consider the problem of identifying the consensus ranking for the results of a query, given preferences among those results from a set of individual users. Once consensus ranki...
Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering, Anton M...
Abstract. Bitmap indices are popular multi-dimensional data structures for accessing read-mostly data such as data warehouse (DW) applications, decision support systems (DSS) and o...
The rapid popularization of digital cameras and mobile phone cameras has lead to an explosive growth of consumer photo collections. In this paper, we present a (quasi) real-time t...
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
Let f be a function on Rd that is monotonic in every variable. There are 2d possible assignments to the directions of monotonicity (two per variable). We provide sufficient condit...