Abstract--The Affinity Propagation (AP) clustering algorithm proposed by Frey and Dueck (2007) provides an understandable, nearly optimal summary of a data set. However, it suffers...
Data security is a critical issue for many organizations. Sensitive data must be protected from both inside and outside attackers. Access control policies and related mechanisms h...
Recommender systems based on collaborative filtering predict user preferences for products or services by learning past user-item relationships. A predominant approach to collabo...
We present an extension to the Lasso [9] for binary classification problems with ordered attributes. Inspired by the Fused Lasso [8] and the Group Lasso [10, 4] models, we aim to...
Complex networks have been used successfully in scientific disciplines ranging from sociology to microbiology to describe systems of interacting units. Until recently, studies of...