Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
Deploying a classifier to large-scale systems such as the web requires careful feature design and performance evaluation. Evaluation is particularly challenging because these larg...
We present a complete XPath cost-based optimization and execution framework and demonstrate its effectiveness and efficiency for a variety of queries and datasets. The framework i...
Haris Georgiadis, Minas Charalambides, Vasilis Vas...
Content-based image retrieval with relevant feedback has been widely adopted as the query model of choice for improved effectiveness in image retrieval. The effectiveness of thi...
Increasing user comfort and reducing operation costs have always been two primary objectives of building operations and control strategies. Current building control strategies are...
Vipul Singhvi, Andreas Krause, Carlos Guestrin, Ja...