We formalize the notion of a cryptographic counter, which allows a group of participants to increment and decrement a cryptographic representation of a (hidden) numerical value pri...
Abstract-- We introduce the novel notion of explanationbased diversification to address the well-known problem of overspecialization in item recommendations. Over-specialization in...
Algorithms that exploit sort orders are widely used to implement joins, grouping, duplicate elimination and other set operations. Query optimizers traditionally deal with sort ord...
d Abstract] K. Buchin Dept. Computer Science Utrecht University The Netherlands buchin@cs.uu.nl M. Buchin Dept. Computer Science Utrecht University The Netherlands maike@cs.uu.nl ...
The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful tool for classification. We generalize SVM to work with data objects that are naturally understood to be lying on curved manifolds, ...
Suman K. Sen, Mark Foskey, James Stephen Marron, M...