Abstract. User preferences are a fundamental ingredient of personalized database applications, in particular those in which the user context plays a key role. Given a set of prefer...
Abstract. Belief propagation (BP) is the calculation method which enables us to obtain the marginal probabilities with a tractable computational cost. BP is known to provide true m...
In many real-world applications, such as image retrieval, it would be natural to measure the distances from one instance to others using instance specific distance which captures ...
The problem of finding the most probable (MAP) configuration in graphical models comes up in a wide range of applications. In a general graphical model this problem is NP hard, bu...
This paper discusses some aspects of fuzzy random variables obtained by propagating uncertainty in risk analysis when some input parameters are stochastic, while others are determ...