We present a distributed index data structure and algorithms devised to support parallel query processing of multimedia content in search engines. We present a comparative study wi...
The problem of finding an optimal bipartition of a rectangle set has a direct impact on query performance of dynamic R-trees. During update operations, overflowed nodes need to be...
Complex social and information network search becomes important with a variety of applications. In the core of these applications, lies a common and critical problem: Given a labe...
Arijit Khan, Nan Li, Xifeng Yan, Ziyu Guan, Supriy...
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...
There has been substantial progress with formal models for sequential decision making by individual agents using the Markov decision process (MDP). However, similar treatment of m...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...