Graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms have been successfully used to extract class-instance pairs from large unstructured and structured text collections. However,...
181 views150 votes15 years 2 months ago NAACL 2010»
We consider the problem of predicting a movie's opening weekend revenue. Previous work on this problem has used metadata about a movie--e.g., its genre, MPAA rating, and cast...
139 views125 votes15 years 11 months ago ICCS 2009»
Recent years have seen growth in the number of algorithms designed to solve challenging simulation-based nonlinear optimization problems. One such algorithm is the Trust-Region Par...
93 views134 votes15 years 11 months ago COLCOM 2007»
Abstract—This article describes a distributed classroom experiment carried out by five universities in the US and Europe at the beginning of 2007. This experiment was motivated ...
Abstract. In the last few years, the microprocessors technologies have been definitely moving to multi-core architectures, in order to improve performances as well as reduce power ...
124 views146 votes15 years 6 months ago BCSHCI 2007»
The use of computer applications to support learning and assessment is becoming more common, along with a growing body of research focusing on the pedagogical effectiveness of the...
117 views159 votes15 years 10 months ago ICPADS 2002»
Network emulation systems are widely used to explore the behavior of network protocols and to test and evaluate protocol implementations and applications. The major problem of net...
Many believe that ubiquitous computing will succeed when it has faded into the background of everyday life and work—that is, when it has become mundane. This paper examines the ...
127 views131 votes15 years 11 months ago IPPS 2007»
The paper presents a software component that enables NetSolve with direct communications between servers in a non-intrusive and incremental way. Non-intrusiveness means that the s...
215 views154 votes15 years 6 months ago HPDC 2010»
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...