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ICWSM
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Enhanced Recommenders for Controversial Items
A particularly challenging task for recommender systems (RSs) is deciding whether to recommend an item that received a variety of high and low scores from its users. RSs that inco...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, ...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Increasing usability of preprocessing for feature management in product lines with queries
Managing features that have fine-grained impact on base programs is a challenging task in software product line development. Despite well-known problems, preprocessing (e.g., cpp)...
Stan Jarzabek, Hongyu Zhang, Youpeng Lee, Yinxing ...
GRAPHICSINTERFACE
2009
13 years 2 months ago
An analytical approach to single scattering for anisotropic media and light distributions
Despite their numerous applications, efficiently rendering participating media remains a challenging task due to the intricacy of the radiative transport equation. While numerical...
Vincent Pegoraro, Mathias Schott, Steven G. Parker
WIOPT
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Detecting events in the dynamics of ego-centered measurements of the internet topology
—Detecting events such as major routing changes or congestions in the dynamics of the internet topology is an important but challenging task. We explore here a top-down approach ...
Assia Hamzaoui, Matthieu Latapy, Clémence M...
COMPUTER
1999
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13 years 4 months ago
Mapping the Internet
Discovery of a network topology is a challenging task. Available algorithms that rely on simple hop-limited, traceroute-style probes give different performance in terms of the com...
Hal Burch, Bill Cheswick
CGF
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Improved Scene Reconstruction from Range Images
The modeling of real scenes is a complex and challenging task for which the use of laser rangefinders is one of the most promising approaches. Unfortunately, in many situations, i...
Jianning Wang, Manuel M. Oliveira
CLEIEJ
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
A framework for performance evaluation of parallel applications on the GRID
Performance evaluation of applications running on a Grid is a challenging task. Grid's resources are heterogeneous in nature, often shared, and dynamic, all of which have imp...
Carlos Figueira, Emilio Hernández, Eduardo ...
AIEDU
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Using Knowledge Tracing in a Noisy Environment to Measure Student Reading Proficiencies
Constructing a student model for language tutors is a challenging task. This paper describes using knowledge tracing to construct a student model of reading proficiency and validat...
Joseph E. Beck, June Sison
OWLED
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Ontology-Based Management of the Telehealth Smart Home, Dedicated to Elderly in Loss of Cognitive Autonomy
Taking care of an elderly in loss of cognitive autonomy is a challenging task. Artificial agents, such as the Telehealth Smart Home (TSH) system can facilitate that task. However,...
Fatiha Latfi, Bernard Lefebvre, Céline Desc...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Image Contents in Web Search
Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Hong-Bin Dai