We study an extension of the "standard" learning models to settings where observing the value of an attribute has an associated cost (which might be different for differ...
Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
Let F be a collection of n d-variate, possibly partially defined, functions, all algebraic of some constant maximum degree. We present a randomized algorithm that computes the vert...
Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...
It has long been noted that many data mining algorithms can be built on top of join algorithms. This has lead to a wealth of recent work on efficiently supporting such joins with ...
Lexiang Ye, Xiaoyue Wang, Dragomir Yankov, Eamonn ...