We introduce several generalizations of classical computer science problems obtained by replacing simpler objective functions with general submodular functions. The new problems i...
Many self-organizing and self-adaptive systems use the biologically inspired “gradient” primitive, in which each device in a network estimates its distance to the closest devi...
Jonathan Bachrach, Jacob Beal, Joshua Horowitz, Da...
We address the issue of providing highly informative and comprehensive annotations using information revealed by the structured vocabularies of Gene Ontology (GO). For a target, a...
Content analysis and citation analysis are two common methods in recommending system. Compared with content analysis, citation analysis can discover more implicitly related papers...
Unsupervised clustering can be significantly improved using supervision in the form of pairwise constraints, i.e., pairs of instances labeled as belonging to same or different clu...