—A multi-party contract signing (MPCS) protocol allows a set of parties to exchange messages with each other to reach a state in which either each of them has a pre-agreed contra...
We study the problem of answering ambiguous web queries in a setting where there exists a taxonomy of information, and that both queries and documents may belong to more than one ...
Rakesh Agrawal, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Alan Halverso...
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
The lack of standards for Romanization of Thai proper names makes searching activity a challenging task. This is particularly important when searching for people-related documents ...
Abstract. We address the problem of joint feature selection in multiple related classification or regression tasks. When doing feature selection with multiple tasks, usually one c...
Paramveer S. Dhillon, Brian Tomasik, Dean P. Foste...