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WSDM
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2010
ACM
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper we study approximate landmark-based methods for point-to-point distance estimation in very large networks. These methods involve selecting a subset of nodes as landm...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Recently, a new optical device called variable optical delay line (VODL) has been proposed in the literature. As suggested by its name, the delay of a VODL can be dynamically se...
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
Distributed Partially Observable Markov Decision Problems (Distributed POMDPs) are a popular approach for modeling multi-agent systems acting in uncertain domains. Given the signi...
SIGGRAPH
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
The emergence of large-scale freeform shapes in architecture poses big challenges to the fabrication of such structures. A key problem is the approximation of the design surface b...