Automatic image annotation is a promising way to achieve more effective image management and retrieval by using keywords. However, system performances of the existing state-of-the...
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...
State-of-the-art techniques for probability sampling of users of online social networks (OSNs) are based on random walks on a single social relation. While powerful, these methods ...
Minas Gjoka, Carter T. Butts, Maciej Kurant, Athin...
In this paper we describe a stochastic local search (SLS) procedure for finding satisfying models of satisfiable propositional formulae. This new algorithm, gNovelty+ , draws on th...
Duc Nghia Pham, John Thornton, Charles Gretton, Ab...
Bagging is an ensemble method that uses random resampling of a dataset to construct models. In classification scenarios, the random resampling procedure in bagging induces some c...