Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
Abstract-- Cancer treatment by chemotherapy involves multiple applications of toxic drugs over a period of time. Optimising the schedule of these treatments can improve the outcome...
We construct algorithms for deciding essentially any minor-closed parameter, with explicit time bounds. This result strengthens previous results by Robertson and Seymour [1,2], Fr...
In this paper, we study a new problem of mining causal relation of queries in search engine query logs. Causal relation between two queries means event on one query is the causati...
Yizhou Sun, Kunqing Xie, Ning Liu, Shuicheng Yan, ...
Statistical selection procedures can identify the best of a finite set of alternatives, where “best” is defined in terms of the unknown expected value of each alternative’...