Determining similarity is a fundamental task in querying multimedia databases in a content-based way. For this challenging task, there exist numerous similarity models which measu...
How to measure and model the similarity between different music items is one of the most fundamental yet challenging research problems in music information retrieval. This paper ...
Bingjun Zhang, Qiaoliang Xiang, Ye Wang, Jialie Sh...
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
Network management operations are complicated, tedious and error-prone, requiring significant human involvement and expert knowledge. In this paper, we first examine the fundame...
Xu Chen, Yun Mao, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jacobus E. ...