Mentoring refers to the phenomenon where a more skilled or knowledgeable person helps a less skilled or less knowledgeable person gain skill in a particular domain. In this paper w...
Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, David Huffaker, Jing Wan...
We study a novel problem of social context summarization for Web documents. Traditional summarization research has focused on extracting informative sentences from standard docume...
Zi Yang, Keke Cai, Jie Tang, Li Zhang, Zhong Su, J...
We propose a novel method for approximate inference in Bayesian networks (BNs). The idea is to sample data from a BN, learn a latent tree model (LTM) from the data offline, and wh...
In response to the problems that have arisen regarding the terminology and concepts of agent-oriented systems, previous work has described a formal framework for understanding agen...
Due to computational intractability, large scale coordination algorithms are necessarily heuristic and hence require tuning for particular environments. In domains where character...