We study the design and approximation of optimal crowdsourcing contests. Crowdsourcing contests can be modeled as all-pay auctions because entrants must exert effort up-front to e...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Balasubramanian ...
Many cues have been proposed for contour detection or image segmentation. These include low-level image gradients to high-level information such as the identity of the objects in ...
Transfer learning proves to be effective for leveraging labeled data in the source domain to build an accurate classifier in the target domain. The basic assumption behind transf...
Mingsheng Long, Jianmin Wang 0001, Guiguang Ding, ...
For a spatial database management system, it is an important goal to minimize the I/O-cost of queries and other operations. Several page-replacement strategies have been proposed a...
Microblogging services, such as Twitter, are among the most important online social networks(OSNs). Different from OSNs such as Facebook, the topology of microblogging service is ...
Tianyi Wang, Yang Chen, Zengbin Zhang, Peng Sun, B...