Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with collaborative unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. T...
Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Steven Kay, Qing Yang
Consider a distributed network with nodes arranged in a tree, and each node having a local value. We consider the problem of aggregating values (e.g., summing values) from all nod...
C. Greg Plaxton, Mitul Tiwari, Praveen Yalagandula
Online microblogging services, as exemplified by Twitter, have become immensely popular during the latest years. However, current microblogging systems severely suffer from perfor...
An adaptive control scheme for mechanical manipulators is proposed. The control loop essentially consists of a network for learning the robot's inverse dynamics and on-line ge...
Because changes to the database (DB) and workload occur during a DB system's lifetime, the physical DB design must evolve to sustain good performance. These changes are carri...