With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
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Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a popular technique for explorative data analysis. Usually, a fixed set of dimensions (such as time, place, etc.) is used to explore and ana...
Benjamin Leonhardi, Bernhard Mitschang, Rubé...
Online social networks have become very popular in recent years and their number of users is already measured in many hundreds of millions. For various commercial and sociological...
The progress towards programming methodologies that simplify the work of the programmer involves automating, whenever possible, activities that are secondary to the main task of d...