Space constrained optimization problems arise in a multitude of important applications such as data warehouses and pervasive computing. A typical instance of such problems is to s...
Themistoklis Palpanas, Nick Koudas, Alberto O. Men...
The traditional, well established approach to finding out what works in education research is to run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) using a standard pretest and posttest desig...
Zachary A. Pardos, Matthew D. Dailey, Neil T. Heff...
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...
The (randomized) real-valued negative selection algorithm is an anomaly detection approach, inspired by the negative selection immune system principle. The algorithm was proposed t...
The Web is now a huge information repository with a rich semantic structure that, however, is primarily addressed to human understanding rather than automated processing by a compu...