Inverse document frequency (IDF) is one of the most useful and widely used concepts in information retrieval. There have been various attempts to provide theoretical justification...
We study online pricing problems in markets with cancellations, i.e., markets in which prior allocation decisions can be revoked, but at a cost. In our model, a seller receives re...
Moshe Babaioff, Jason D. Hartline, Robert D. Klein...
In this work, using a game-theoretic approach, costsensitive mechanisms that lead to reliable Internet-based computing are designed. In particular, we consider Internet-based mast...
—Location information should be verifiable in order to support new computing and information services. In this paper, we adapt the classical challenge-response method for authen...
—We present the design and implementation of a parallel exact inference algorithm on the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE). Exact inference is a key problem in exploring probabilis...