Recently a bulk of research [14, 5, 15, 9] has been done on the modelling of the smallworld phenomenon, which has been shown to be pervasive in social and nature networks, and eng...
We have taught several distributed software engineering project courses with students and real clients [4]. During these projects, students in Pittsburgh and Munich, Germany colla...
Andreas Braun, Allen H. Dutoit, Andreas Harrer, Be...
We formulate and study a decentralized multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem. There are distributed players competing for independent arms. Each arm, when played, offers i.i.d. reward a...
The vast user-provided image tags on the popular photo sharing websites may greatly facilitate image retrieval and management. However, these tags are often imprecise and/or incom...
Abstract--With the increased presence of digital imaging devices, there also came an explosion in the amount of multimedia content available online. Users have transformed from pas...