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GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Modeling and querying uncertain spatial information for situational awareness applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
ICML
2005
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
ROC confidence bands: an empirical evaluation
This paper is about constructing confidence bands around ROC curves. We first introduce to the machine learning community three band-generating methods from the medical field, and...
Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster J. Provost, Saharon Ros...
ICML
2000
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
A Nonparametric Approach to Noisy and Costly Optimization
This paper describes Pairwise Bisection: a nonparametric approach to optimizing a noisy function with few function evaluations. The algorithm uses nonparametric reasoning about si...
Brigham S. Anderson, Andrew W. Moore, David Cohn
POPL
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Lazy evaluation and delimited control
The call-by-need lambda calculus provides an equational framework for reasoning syntactically about lazy evaluation. This paper examines its operational characteristics. By a seri...
Ronald Garcia, Andrew Lumsdaine, Amr Sabry
CHI
2006
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Verbosity: a game for collecting common-sense facts
We address the problem of collecting a database of "common-sense facts" using a computer game. Informally, a common-sense fact is a true statement about the world that i...
Luis von Ahn, Mihir Kedia, Manuel Blum