With the recent surge of social networks such as Facebook, new forms of recommendations have become possible – recommendations that rely on one’s social connections in order t...
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Aleksandra Korolova, Atish...
We define the concept of dependence among multiple variables using maximum entropy techniques and introduce a graphical notation to denote the dependencies. Direct inference of in...
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
We address an unsupervised object detection and segmentation problem that goes beyond the conventional assumptions of one-to-one object correspondences or model-test settings betwe...
Minsu Cho (Seoul National University), Young Min S...
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...