High quality, artifact-free fitting a bathymetry (sea-floor) surface to very unevenly spaced depth data from ship tracklines is possible with ODETLAP (Overdetermined Laplacian Par...
Tsz-Yam Lau, W. Randolph Franklin, You Li, Zhongyi...
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel "left in the dark" when they have limited knowledge about the unde...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...
Information diffusion, viral marketing, and collective classification all attempt to model and exploit the relationships in a network to make inferences about the labels of nodes....