We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
The explosion of Web opinion data has made essential the need for automatic tools to analyze and understand people’s sentiments toward different topics. In most sentiment analy...
In this paper, we present a systematic framework for recognizing realistic actions from videos “in the wild.” Such unconstrained videos are abundant in personal collections as...
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
Background: Next generation ultra-sequencing technologies are starting to produce extensive quantities of data from entire human genome or exome sequences, and therefore new softw...