Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
The prevalent use of XML highlights the need for a generic, flexible access-control mechanism for XML documents that supports efficient and secure query access, without revealing ...
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
Automated analysis of human affective behavior has attracted increasing attention in recent years. With the research shift toward spontaneous behavior, many challenges have come to...
Proximity measures quantify the closeness or similarity between nodes in a social network and form the basis of a range of applications in social sciences, business, information t...
Han Hee Song, Tae Won Cho, Vacha Dave, Yin Zhang, ...