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...
A key challenge in recommender system research is how to effectively profile new users, a problem generally known as cold-start recommendation. Recently the idea of progressivel...
Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...
We describe a method for generating N-best configurations from part-based models, ensuring that they do not overlap according to some user-provided definition of overlap. We ext...
Abstract—During the last few years a wide range of algorithms and devices have been made available to easily acquire range images. To this extent, the increasing abundance of dep...