The increasingly prominent new subset of Web pages, called `blogs' differs from traditional Web pages both in characteristics and potential to applications. We explore three ...
Detecting outliers is an important topic in data mining. Sometimes the outliers are more interesting than the rest of the data. Outlier identification has lots of applications, su...
Emergence of the web and online computing applications gave rise to rich large scale social activity data. One of the principal challenges then is to build models and understandin...
We introduce a natural generalization of submodular set cover and exact active learning with a finite hypothesis class (query learning). We call this new problem interactive submo...
To design a transportation sensor network, the decision-maker needs to determine what sensor investments should be made, as well as when, how, where and with what technologies. Th...