Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a key technique for solving multiagent coordination problems. Unfortunately, finding minimal-cost DCOP solutions is NP-hard. We there...
Abstract. Accessibility is becoming more and more relevant in Information technologies, such as the Web and software applications, particularly due to the push on legislation to ma...
Influence maximization, defined by Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003), is the problem of finding a small set of seed nodes in a social network that maximizes the spread of influe...
Abstract. Although mobile hand-held devices (MHDs) are ubiquitous today, little is know about how they are used--especially at home. In this paper, we cast a first look on mobile h...
Local learning for classification is useful in dealing with various vision problems. One key factor for such approaches to be effective is to find good neighbors for the learning ...