Immortal DB is a transaction time database system that is built into a commercial database system rather than being layered on top. This enables it to have performance that is very...
In applications of biometric databases the typical task is to identify individuals according to features which are not exactly known. Reasons for this inexactness are varying meas...
In this paper we introduce Ant-Q, a family of algorithms which present many similarities with Q-learning (Watkins, 1989), and which we apply to the solution of symmetric and asymm...
We consider the budget-constrained bidding optimization problem for sponsored search auctions, and model it as an online (multiple-choice) knapsack problem. We design both determi...
Yunhong Zhou, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Rajan M. Luko...
CoIL challenge 2000 was a supervised learning contest that attracted 43 entries. The authors of 29 entries later wrote explanations of their work. This paper discusses these repor...