Link prediction is a key technique in many applications such as recommender systems, where potential links between users and items need to be predicted. A challenge in link predic...
Traditional location-based services recommend nearest objects to the user by considering their spatial proximity. However, an object not only has its distance but also has its dir...
While Bayesian network (BN) can achieve accurate predictions even with erroneous or incomplete evidence, explaining the inferences remains a challenge. Existing approaches fall sh...
Consider a family of sets and a single set, called the query set. How can one quickly find a member of the family which has a maximal intersection with the query set? Time constra...
Benjamin Hoffmann, Mikhail Lifshits, Yury Lifshits...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively crea...