We consider the parallels between the preference elicitation problem in combinatorial auctions and the problem of learning an unknown function from learning theory. We show that l...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...
Unsolicited commercial or bulk emails or emails containing viruses pose a great threat to the utility of email communications. A recent solution for filtering is reputation systems...
Yuchun Tang, Sven Krasser, Dmitri Alperovitch, Pau...
The insider threat against database management systems is a dangerous security problem. Authorized users may abuse legitimate privileges to masquerade as other users or to maliciou...
Sunu Mathew, Michalis Petropoulos, Hung Q. Ngo, Sh...
The amount of information available in the MEDLINE database makes it very hard for a researcher to retrieve a reasonable amount of relevant documents using a simple query language ...