Boosting is a popular approach for building accurate classifiers. Despite the initial popular belief, boosting algorithms do exhibit overfitting and are sensitive to label noise. ...
This paper describes the design and implementation of the eduSource Communication Layer (ECL) protocol. ECL is one outcome of a pan-Canadian project called eduSource Canada to bui...
The emerging edge services architecture promises to improve the availability and performance of web services by replicating servers at geographically distributed sites. A key chal...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Amol Nayate, Jiandan Zhen...
While the information resources on the Web are vast, the sources are often hard to find, painful to use, and difficult to integrate. We have developed the Heracles framework for b...
Building predictive models and finding useful rules are two important tasks of data mining. While building predictive models has been well studied, finding useful rules for action...