We investigate a framework where agents search for satisfying products by using referrals from other agents. Our model of a mechanism for transmitting word-of-mouth and the result...
Business intelligence is a business management term used to describe applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to and analyze data and information abo...
Learning application-specific distance metrics from labeled data is critical for both statistical classification and information retrieval. Most of the earlier work in this area h...
We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We first analyze how such systems can help users in the framework ...
Based on the probabilistic reformulation of principal component analysis (PCA), we consider the problem of determining the number of principal components as a model selection prob...
Zhihua Zhang, Kap Luk Chan, James T. Kwok, Dit-Yan...