Range queries based on L1 distance are a common type of queries in multimedia databases containing feature vectors. We propose a novel approach that transforms the feature space i...
Sakti Pramanik, Alok Watve, Chad R. Meiners, Alex ...
In this paper, we are interested in the relationship between final prices of online auctions and possible shill activities during those auctions. We conduct experiments on real auc...
Users now interact with multiple Location-Based Services (LBS) through a myriad set of location-aware devices and interfaces. However, current LBS tend to be centralized silos wit...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Contextual advertising supports much of the Web's ecosystem today. User experience and revenue (shared by the site publisher ad the ad network) depend on the relevance of the...