Many software applications consist of a number of interdependent steps and are executed under the supervision of a human administrator or operator. The administrator responds to e...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
Since clustering is unsupervised and highly explorative, clustering validation (i.e. assessing the quality of clustering solutions) has been an important and long standing researc...
Many data mining applications can benefit from adapting existing classifiers to new data with shifted distributions. In this paper, we present Adaptive Support Vector Machine (Ada...
In an online rating system, raters assign ratings to objects contributed by other users. In addition, raters can develop trust and distrust on object contributors depending on a f...