Publishing a database instance containing individual information poses two kinds of privacy risk: presence leakage, by which the attackers can explicitly identify individuals in (...
User preferences for automated assistance often vary widely, depending on the situation, and quality or presentation of help. Developing effective models to learn individual prefe...
The majority of the existing algorithms for learning decision trees are greedy--a tree is induced top-down, making locally optimal decisions at each node. In most cases, however, ...
Textures are commonly used to enhance the representation of shape in non-photorealistic rendering applications such as medical drawings. Textures that have elongated linear elemen...
This paper presents an analysis of static and dynamic organizational structures for naturally distributed, homogeneous, cooperative problem solving environments, exemplified by di...