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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai, Wan Chen
ICCV
2003
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Ranking Prior Likelihood Distributions for Bayesian Shape Localization Framework
In this paper, we formulate the shape localization problem in the Bayesian framework. In the learning stage, we propose the Constrained RankBoost approach to model the likelihood ...
Shuicheng Yan, Mingjing Li, HongJiang Zhang, QianS...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The price of democracy in coalition formation
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
BMCBI
2010
90views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Local alignment of generalized k-base encoded DNA sequence
Background: DNA sequence comparison is a well-studied problem, in which two DNA sequences are compared using a weighted edit distance. Recent DNA sequencing technologies however o...
Nils Homer, Stanley F. Nelson, Barry Merriman
CORR
2011
Springer
202views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
Multi-skill Collaborative Teams based on Densest Subgraphs
We consider the problem of identifying a team of skilled individuals for collaboration, in the presence of a social network. Each node in the input social network may be an expert...
Amita Gajewar, Atish Das Sarma