This paper describes some of our efforts in infusing the critical thinking skill of comparing and contrasting into a course on data structures. Comparing and contrasting is the pr...
M. R. K. Krishna Rao, Muhammad Shafique, Kanaan A....
— Non-negative Matrix factorization (NMF) has increasingly been used as a tool in signal processing in the last couple of years. NMF, like independent component analysis (ICA) is...
The behavior of a complex system often depends on parameters whose values are unknown in advance. To operate effectively, an autonomous agent must actively gather information on t...
Li Ling Ko, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee, Sylvie C. W. O...
We analyze the structure and evolution of discussion cascades in four popular websites: Slashdot, Barrapunto, Meneame and Wikipedia. Despite the big heterogeneities between these ...
Abstract In this paper, we study the problem of supporting range sum queries on a compressed sequence of values. For a sequence of n k-bit integers, k ≤ O(log n), our data struct...