A fairly common modern setting entails users, each in possession of a personal wireless device, wanting to communicate securely, via their devices. If these users (and their devic...
Most network protocols are uni-modal: they employ a single set of algorithms that allows them to cope well only within a narrow range of operating conditions. This rigid design re...
Spectral clustering refers to a flexible class of clustering procedures that can produce high-quality clusterings on small data sets but which has limited applicability to large-s...
Astronomy increasingly faces the issue of massive datasets. For instance, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has so far generated tens of millions of images of distant galaxies, ...
Brigham Anderson, Andrew W. Moore, Andrew Connolly...
We consider the problem of large-scale retrieval evaluation, and we propose a statistical method for evaluating retrieval systems using incomplete judgments. Unlike existing techn...