It is well known that many hard tasks considered in machine learning and data mining can be solved in a rather simple and robust way with an instanceand distance-based approach. In...
The success of kernel methods including support vector machines (SVMs) strongly depends on the design of appropriate kernels. While initially kernels were designed in order to han...
The primary objective of this paper was to examine the extent to which Gutman’s Means-End Chain Model can be used to describe the influences given to the choice of characteristi...
Abstract. How does a virtual agent’s gesturing behavior influence the user’s perception of communication quality and the agent’s personality? This question was investigated ...
Fundamental nano-patterns are simple, static, binary properties of Java methods, such as ObjectCreator and Recursive. We present a provisional catalogue of 17 such nano-patterns. ...