Among the visual features of multimedia content, shape is of particular interest because humans can often recognize objects solely on the basis of shape. Over the past three decad...
Memory-based approaches for collaborative filtering identify the similarity between two users by comparing their ratings on a set of items. In the past, the memory-based approache...
Abstract. Many data mining approaches focus on the discovery of similar (and frequent) data values in large data sets. We present an alternative, but complementary approach in whic...
Jeff Edmonds, Jarek Gryz, Dongming Liang, Ren&eacu...
We present a novel method for information-theoretic exploration, leveraging recent work on mapping and localization. We describe exploration as the constrained optimization proble...
We describe a general approach to optimization which we term Squeaky Wheel" Optimization SWO. In SWO, a greedy algorithm is used to construct a solution which is then analyze...