Abstract. The increasing volume of digital communication is raising new challenges in the management of the information flow. We discuss the usage of context to infer presence info...
In open settings, the participants are autonomous and there is no central authority to ensure the felicity of their interactions. When agents interact in such settings, each relie...
The problem of joint modeling the text and image components of multimedia documents is studied. The text component is represented as a sample from a hidden topic model, learned wi...
Nikhil Rasiwasia, Jose Costa Pereira, Emanuele Cov...
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that explicitly deals with correlated multi-dimensional contracts. Our starting point is to consider an...
Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nichol...
At a parcel delivery company, the items being shipped must be sorted by destination. However, the company typically serves more destinations than there are distinct positions for ...