Developing customers’ initial trust in e-businesses is critical for many online vendors, especially for startup companies. As an effort to understand initial trust in the busine...
Abstract. In this paper, we will address the endeavors of three disciplines, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) modeling, in explaining how the mind perc...
This paper presents an attempt to find a statistical model that predicts the hardness of the University Course Timetabling Problem by analyzing instance properties. The model may l...
Machine learning and statistical methods have yielded impressive results in a wide variety of natural language processing tasks. These advances have generally been regarded as eng...
Maximum entropy models are a common modeling technique, but prone to overfitting. We show that using an exponential distribution as a prior leads to bounded absolute discounting b...