This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...
—In this paper, we have developed a novel framework called JustClick to enable personalized image recommendation via exploratory search from large-scale collections of manuallyan...
With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...
Abstract— This paper considers the basis vector selection issue invloved in forward selection algorithms to sparse Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Firstly, we re-examine a pre...
In this paper, we propose a middleware library for efficiently developing distributed cooperative applications consisting of a large number of cellular phones with Java executors....