In this study, we formalize a multi-focal learning problem, where training data are partitioned into several different focal groups and the prediction model will be learned within...
Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Ramendra K. Sahoo...
Motivated by the problem of customer wallet estimation, we propose a new setting for multi-view regression, where we learn a completely unobserved target (in our case, customer wa...
This paper describes TIPPPS (Time Interleaved Product Purchase Prediction System), which analyses billing data of corporate customers in a large telecommunications company in orde...
We consider a memoryless single server queue with two classes of customers, each having its fixed entry fee. We show that profit and social welfare may benefit from a service disc...
The blogosphere--the totality of blog-related Web sites-has become a great source of trend analysis in areas such as product survey, customer relationship, and marketing. Existing...