This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
In this paper, we present Power Agent - a pervasive game designed to encourage teenagers and their families to reduce energy consumption in the home. The idea behind this mobile p...
Many social Web sites allow users to annotate the content with descriptive metadata, such as tags, and more recently to organize content hierarchically. These types of structured ...
Anon Plangprasopchok, Kristina Lerman, Lise Getoor
State of the art methods for image and object re-
trieval exploit both appearance (via visual words) and
local geometry (spatial extent, relative pose). In large
scale problems,...
Michal Perdoch (Czech Technical University), Ondre...