We consider a new class of planning problems involving a set of non-negative real variables, and a set of non-deterministic actions that increase or decrease the values of these v...
Siddharth Srivastava, Shlomo Zilberstein, Neil Imm...
A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown ...
We report on a study of the English edition of Wikipedia in which we used a mixed methods approach to understand how nested organizational structures called WikiProjects support c...
Andrea Forte, Niki Kittur, Vanessa Larco, Haiyi Zh...
In this paper, we present a patch-based regression framework for addressing the human age and head pose estimation problems. Firstly, each image is encoded as an ensemble of order...
Shuicheng Yan, Xi Zhou, Ming Liu, Mark Hasegawa-Jo...
The computation of page importance in a huge dynamic graph has recently attracted a lot of attention because of the web. Page importance, or page rank is defined as the fixpoint o...