As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
This paper presents a novel approach for using clickthrough data to learn ranked retrieval functions for web search results. We observe that users searching the web often perform ...
We consider online learning in repeated decision problems, within the framework of a repeated game against an arbitrary opponent. For repeated matrix games, well known results esta...
In many practical applications, one is interested in generating a ranked list of items using information mined from continuous streams of data. For example, in the context of comp...
Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have recently proven to be effective for web queries. However, when initial queries have reasonably good quality, these techniqu...