With the recent technological feasibility of electronic commerce over the Internet, much attention has been given to the design of electronic markets for various types of electron...
In this paper, we present a novel, threshold-free robust estimation framework capable of efficiently fitting models to contaminated data. While RANSAC and its many variants have...
After an outline of the history of evolutionary algorithms, a new ( ) variant of the evolution strategies is introduced formally. Though not comprising all degrees of freedom, it i...
To exploit the similarity information hidden in the hyperlink structure of the web, this paper introduces algorithms scalable to graphs with billions of vertices on a distributed ...
This article describes an application of the partially observable Markov (POM) model to the analysis of a large scale commercial web search log. Mathematically, POM is a variant o...