In this paper, we consider a constrained sequential resource allocation problem where an individual needs to accomplish a task by repeatedly guessing/investing a sufficient level o...
Electronic mail is an unquestionably vital component of the Internet infrastructure. While the general perception of email is that it "just works," surprisingly little d...
Photo community sites such as Flickr and Picasa Web Album host a massive amount of personal photos with millions of new photos uploaded every month. These photos constitute an ove...
Liangliang Cao, Jie Yu, Jiebo Luo, Thomas S. Huang
Analyzing the author and topic relations in email corpus is an important issue in both social network analysis and text mining. The AuthorTopic model is a statistical model that id...
Blocking is a technique commonly used in manual statistical analysis to account for confounding variables. However, blocking is not currently used in automated learning algorithms...