Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this article, we initiate research on the anytime ...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are composed of a set of communicating devices which are able to spontaneously interconnect without any pre-existing infrastructure. In such scenari...
We consider a class of geometric facility location problems in which the goal is to determine a set X of disks given by their centers (tj) and radii (rj) that cover a given set of...
We introduce a new approach to analyzing click logs by examining both the documents that are clicked and those that are bypassed--documents returned higher in the ordering of the ...
Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Samuel Ieong
A new stochastic method for locating the global minimum of a multidimensional function inside a rectangular hyperbox is presented. A sampling technique is employed that makes use ...