Many data mining applications involve the task of building a model for predictive classification. The goal of such a model is to classify examples (records or data instances) into...
Elon S. Correa, Alex Alves Freitas, Colin G. Johns...
In this paper, the automatic medical annotation task of the 2007 CLEF cross-language image retrieval campaign (ImageCLEF) is described. The paper focusses on the images used, the ...
Thomas Deselaers, Thomas Martin Deserno, Henning M...
Tree-structured probabilistic models admit simple, fast inference. However, they are not well suited to phenomena such as occlusion, where multiple components of an object may dis...
The liveness characteristics of a system are intimately related to the notion of fairness. However, the task of explicitly modelling fairness constraints is complicated in practice...
This paper describes simulations designed to test the relative efficiency of two different sequential auction mechanisms for allocating compute resources between users in a shared...