With the advent of online social networks, the trust-based approach to recommendation has emerged which exploits the trust network among users and makes recommendations based on t...
Samaneh Moghaddam, Mohsen Jamali, Martin Ester, Ja...
Algorithms based on upper-confidence bounds for balancing exploration and exploitation are gaining popularity since they are easy to implement, efficient and effective. In this p...
Abstract. In the multiagent meeting scheduling problem, agents negotiate with each other on behalf of their users to schedule meetings. While a number of negotiation approaches hav...
In this paper, an approach for the implementation of a qualitybased Web search engine is proposed. Quality retrieval is introduced and an overview on previous efforts to implement...
We propose a new unsupervised learning technique for extracting information from large text collections. We model documents as if they were generated by a two-stage stochastic pro...
Mark Steyvers, Padhraic Smyth, Michal Rosen-Zvi, T...