Generating adequate recommendations for newcomers is a hard problem for a recommender system (RS) due to lack of detailed user profiles and social preference data. Empirical evide...
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Ankur Teredesai, ...
—Inspired by Weber’s Law, this paper proposes a simple, yet very powerful and robust local descriptor, called the Weber Local Descriptor (WLD). It is based on the fact that hum...
Jie Chen, Shiguang Shan, Chu He, Guoying Zhao, Mat...
We consider the problem of manipulating elections via cloning candidates. In our model, a manipulator can replace each candidate c by one or more clones, i.e., new candidates that...
Edith Elkind, Piotr Faliszewski, Arkadii M. Slinko
Spatial data are common in many scientific and commercial domains such as geographical information systems and gene/protein expression profiles. Querying for distribution patterns...
Vishwakarma Singh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Si...
This paper tackles the problem of fast varying channel estimation in LTE systems. Particular attention is given to downlink transmission where OFDMA is used as the multiple access ...