Abstract. The concept of similarity is fundamentally important in almost every scientific field. Clustering, distance-based outlier detection, classification, regression and sea...
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Important ecological phenomena are often observed indirectly. Consequently, probabilistic latent variable models provide an important tool, because they can include explicit model...
Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Li-Ping Liu, Thomas G. Diet...
Cloud computing is quickly becoming the platform of choice for many web services. Virtualization is the key underlying technology enabling cloud providers to host services for a l...
Jakub Szefer, Eric Keller, Ruby B. Lee, Jennifer R...
Traditional information retrieval techniques based on keyword search help to identify a ranked set of relevant documents, which often contains many documents in the top ranks that...