—Small talk is an important social lubricant that helps people, especially strangers, initiate conversations and make friends with each other in physical proximity. However, due ...
Zhimin Yang, Boying Zhang, Jiangpeng Dai, Adam C. ...
Peer-to-peer are popular environments for exchanging services. A reputation mechanism is a proper means of discovering low-performing peers that fail to provide their services. In...
Minimizing Waiting Time Variance (WTV) is a job scheduling problem where we schedule a batch of n jobs, for servicing on a single resource, in such a way that the variance of thei...
Abstract. Since more and more Web sites, especially sites of retailers, offer automatic recommendation services using Web usage mining, evaluation of recommender algorithms has bec...
With the increasing popularity of location-based services, such as tour guide and location-based social network, we now have accumulated many location data on the Web. In this pap...
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Qiang Y...