The national importance of creating "content reflecting cutting edge developments in STEM fields" has been recognized the National Science Foundation. The National Resea...
In this paper, we propose a novel component-wise smoothing algorithm that constructs a hierarchy (or family) of smoothened log-likelihood surfaces. Our approach first smoothens th...
Emotions have a functional relevance to learning and achievement. Not surprisingly then, affective diagnoses are an important aspect of expert human mentoring. Computerbased learni...
Many applications involve multiple-modalities such as text and images that describe the problem of interest. In order to leverage the information present in all the modalities, on...
In the Database-As-a-Service (DAS) model, clients store their database contents at servers belonging to potentially untrusted service providers. To maintain data confidentiality, ...