Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
Many scalable data mining tasks rely on active learning to provide the most useful accurately labeled instances. However, what if there are multiple labeling sources (`oracles...
We describe a recommender system in the domain of grocery shopping. While recommender systems have been widely studied, this is mostly in relation to leisure products (e.g. movies...
Ming Li, M. Benjamin Dias, Ian H. Jarman, Wael El-...
Given a water distribution network, where should we place sensors to quickly detect contaminants? Or, which blogs should we read to avoid missing important stories? These seemingl...
Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Christos Faloutso...
Large highly distributed data sets are poorly supported by current query technologies. Applications such as endsystembased network management are characterized by data stored on l...
Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Richard Mort...