Abstract. Learning ranking functions is crucial for solving many problems, ranging from document retrieval to building recommendation systems based on an individual user’s prefer...
Location monitoring systems are used to detect human activities and provide monitoring services, e.g., aggregate queries. In this paper, we consider an aggregate location monitori...
Ease of deployment, wireless connectivity and ubiquitous mobile on-the-go computing has made the IEEE 802.11 the most widely deployed Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) sta...
Background: In practice many biological time series measurements, including gene microarrays, are conducted at time points that seem to be interesting in the biologist's opin...
Today, large scale parallel systems are available at relatively low cost. Many powerful such systems have been installed all over the world and the number of users is always incre...