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UAI
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Similarity Measures on Preference Structures, Part II: Utility Functions
In previous work [8] we presented a casebased approach to eliciting and reasoning with preferences. A key issue in this approach is the definition of similarity between user prefe...
Vu A. Ha, Peter Haddawy, John Miyamoto
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Utilizing inter-passage and inter-document similarities for re-ranking search results
We present a novel language-model-based approach to reranking an initially retrieved list so as to improve precision at top ranks. Our model integrates whole-document information ...
Eyal Krikon, Oren Kurland, Michael Bendersky
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Settling the Complexity of Arrow-Debreu Equilibria in Markets with Additively Separable Utilities
We prove that the problem of computing an Arrow-Debreu market equilibrium is PPAD-complete even when all traders use additively separable, piecewise-linear and concave utility fun...
Xi Chen, Decheng Dai, Ye Du, Shang-Hua Teng
JBI
2007
110views Bioinformatics» more  JBI 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
FreeViz - An intelligent multivariate visualization approach to explorative analysis of biomedical data
Visualization can largely improve biomedical data analysis. It plays a crucial role in explorative data analysis and may support various data mining tasks. The paper presents Free...
Janez Demsar, Gregor Leban, Blaz Zupan
ADC
2003
Springer
133views Database» more  ADC 2003»
14 years 23 days ago
Utilizing Hyperlink Transitivity to Improve Web Page Clustering
The rapid increase of web complexity and size makes web searched results far from satisfaction in many cases due to a huge amount of information returned by search engines. How to...
Jingyu Hou, Yanchun Zhang