AAAI
2004
14 years 3 days ago
2004
Obtaining an accurate multiple alignment of protein sequences is a difficult computational problem for which many heuristic techniques sacrifice optimality to achieve reasonable r...
HVEI
2010
14 years 5 days ago
2010
Traditional Thurstone scaling (1927) constructs a perceptual scale from pairwise comparisons without providing statistical inferences. We show that subjective preferences for movi...
CIMCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
We propose a new method for deriving rankings from fuzzy pairwise comparisons. It is based on the observation that quantification of the uncertainty of the pairwise comparisons sh...
WSDM
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2010
ACM
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
ICML
2009
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
We present an on-line learning framework tailored towards real-time learning from observed user behavior in search engines and other information retrieval systems. In particular, ...