Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy in all retrieval models. However the performance of existing pseudo feedback meth...
Meta-level control manages the allocation of limited resources to deliberative actions. This paper discusses efforts in adding meta-level control capabilities to a Markov Decision...
The Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction in the Bayesian settin...
tive Guidance Strategy for Abstraction-Guided Simulation Flavio M. De Paula Alan J. Hu Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, {depaulfm, ajh}@cs.ubc.ca D...
This paper addresses the problem of scatternet formation for singlehop Bluetooth based ad hoc networks, with minimal communication overhead. We adopt the well-known structure de B...
Wen-Zhan Song, Xiang-Yang Li, Yu Wang 0003, Weizha...