Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
This paper presents a technique, called GENH, that automatically generates search heuristics for scheduling problems. The impetus for developing this technique is the growing cons...
Robert A. Morris, John L. Bresina, Stuart M. Rodge...
Clustering is one of the most widely used statistical tools for data analysis. Among all existing clustering techniques, k-means is a very popular method because of its ease of pr...
In this paper, we design a local classification algorithm using implicit link analysis, considering the situation that the labeled and unlabeled data are drawn from two different ...
We study epidemic schemes in the context of collaborative data delivery. In this context, multiple chunks of data reside at different nodes, and the challenge is to simultaneousl...