We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
This paper introduces mass estimation—a base modelling mechanism in data mining. It provides the theoretical basis of mass and an efficient method to estimate mass. We show that...
Kai Ming Ting, Guang-Tong Zhou, Fei Tony Liu, Jame...
We initiate the study of incentives in a general machine learning framework. We focus on a game-theoretic regression learning setting where private information is elicited from mu...
Abstract. The explosive evolution of pervasive computing environments presents several new challenges such as smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, and masking uneven ...
Neural nets are generally considered to be connected synaptically. However, the majority of information transfer in the brain may not be by synapses. Nonsynaptic diffusion neurotra...