This paper introduces RankOpt, a linear binary classifier which optimises the area under the ROC curve (the AUC). Unlike standard binary classifiers, RankOpt adopts the AUC stat...
Recommender systems are an emerging technology that helps consumers find interesting products and useful resources. A recommender system makes personalized product suggestions by e...
A recommender system has to collect users' preference data. To collect such data, rating or scoring methods that use rating scales, such as good-fair-poor or a five-point-sca...
Collaborative filtering (CF) shares information between users to provide each with recommendations. Previous work suggests using sketching techniques to handle massive data sets i...
We present a technique for creating a digital elevation model (DEM) from grid-based contour data. The method computes new, intermediate contours in between existing isolines. Thes...