This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Abstract. Association rule mining is a data mining technique that reveals interesting relationships in a database. Existing approaches employ different parameters to search for int...
Web services (WS) received significant attention recently because services can be searched, bound, and executed at runtime over the Internet. This paper proposes a dynamic reconfi...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Weiwei Song, Raymond A. Paul, Zhibin...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
An extension of the AdaBoost learning algorithm is proposed and brought to bear on the face detection problem. In each weak classifier selection cycle, the novel totally correctiv...