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MOBISYS
2010
ACM
15 years 1 days ago
Energy-efficient rate-adaptive GPS-based positioning for smartphones
Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its alte...
Jeongyeup Paek, Joongheon Kim, Ramesh Govindan
AAAI
2007
15 years 1 days ago
On the Prospects for Building a Working Model of the Visual Cortex
Human visual capability has remained largely beyond the reach of engineered systems despite intensive study and considerable progress in problem understanding, algorithms and comp...
Thomas Dean, Glenn Carroll, Richard Washington
AAAI
2008
15 years 1 days ago
Extracting Relevant Snippets for Web Navigation
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...
Qing Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Qi Yan
AAAI
2007
15 years 1 days ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
FLAIRS
2008
15 years 1 days ago
Learning a Probabilistic Model of Event Sequences from Internet Weblog Stories
One of the central problems in building broad-coverage story understanding systems is generating expectations about event sequences, i.e. predicting what happens next given some a...
Mehdi Manshadi, Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon