Abstract. Through interaction with others, a person develops multiple perspectives that become the basis for innovation and the construction of new knowledge. This chapter discusse...
Latent class models (LCM) represent the high dimensional data in a smaller dimensional space in terms of latent variables. They are able to automatically discover the patterns from...
Tracking groups of people is a highly informative task in surveillance, and it represents a still open and little explored issue. In this paper, we propose a brand new framework f...
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
Collaborative filtering aims at learning predictive models of user preferences, interests or behavior from community data, i.e. a database of available user preferences. In this ...