Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
T ORDER REGRESSION (EXTENDED ABSTRACT) Kurt Driessensa Saso Dzeroskib a Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand (kurtd@waikato.ac.nz) b Departm...
The performance of graph based clustering methods critically depends on the quality of the distance function, used to compute similarities between pairs of neighboring nodes. In t...
We extend a torus-based coterie structure for distributed mutual exclusion to allow k multiple entries in a critical section. In the original coterie, the system nodes are logical...
Handling intra-personal variation is a major challenge in face recognition. It is difficult how to appropriately measure the similarity between human faces under significantly di...