We define the base polytope B(P, g) of a partially ordered set P and a supermodular function g on the ideals ofP as the convex hull of the incidence vectors of all linear extensio...
We consider the problem of efficiently finding the top-k answers for join queries over web-accessible databases. Classical algorithms for finding top-k answers use branch-and-b...
Learning ranking (or preference) functions has been a major issue in the machine learning community and has produced many applications in information retrieval. SVMs (Support Vect...
We consider the problem of finding a ranking of a set of elements that is "closest to" a given set of input rankings of the elements; more precisely, we want to find a p...
Data locality and synchronization overhead are two important factors that affect the performance of applications on multiprocessors. Loop fusion is an effective way for reducing s...
Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha, Chenhua Lang, Nelson L. Pass...