This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Different driving forces push the electricity production towards decentralization. As a result, the current electricity infrastructure is expected to evolve into a network of netw...
In this paper we implement a computational model of a neuromodulatory system in an autonomous robot. The output of the neuromodulatory system acts as a value signal, modulating wi...
We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information about authors and topics from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a...
Michal Rosen-Zvi, Chaitanya Chemudugunta, Thomas L...
Given the scale of massively parallel systems, occurrence of faults is no longer an exception but a regular event. Periodic checkpointing is becoming increasingly important in the...