— With the increasing reliance of complex real-world applications on composite web services assembled from independently developed component services, there is a growing need for...
Hongyu Sun, Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar, Robyn R. L...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...
Dynamic optimization is emerging as a promising approach to overcome many of the obstacles of traditional static compilation. But while there are a number of compiler infrastructu...
Derek Bruening, Timothy Garnett, Saman P. Amarasin...
We present a probabilistic ranking-driven classifier for the detection of video semantic concept, such as airplane, building, etc. Most existing concept detection systems utilize ...
Markovian processes have long been used to model stochastic environments. Reinforcement learning has emerged as a framework to solve sequential planning and decision-making proble...