This paper is concerned with how collaborative virtual environments can be structured in order to enable greater scalability and yet maintain a richness of communication. Based on...
Cashiers in retail stores usually exhibit certain repetitive and periodic activities when processing items. Detecting such activities plays a key role in most retail fraud detecti...
Database archiving is important for the retrieval of old versions of a database and for temporal queries over the history of data. We demonstrate XArch, a management system for ma...
The deep Boltzmann machine is a powerful model that extracts the hierarchical structure of observed data. While inference is typically slow due to its undirected nature, we argue ...
In this paper, we introduce a simple, randomized dynamic data structure for storing multidimensional point sets, called a quadtreap. This data structure is a randomized, balanced ...