The conservation of wildlife corridors between existing habitat preserves is important for combating the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation facing species of concern. We in...
Katherine J. Lai, Carla P. Gomes, Michael K. Schwa...
Question and answer pairs in Community Question Answering (CQA) services are organized into hierarchical structures or taxonomies to facilitate users to find the answers for thei...
We consider the problem of fairly dividing a heterogeneous divisible good among agents with different preferences. Previous work has shown that envy-free allocations, i.e., where...
Yuga J. Cohler, John K. Lai, David C. Parkes, Arie...
The most prominent way to establish trust between buyers and sellers on online auction sites are reputation mechanisms. Two drawbacks of this approach are the reliance on the sell...
Latent relational search (LRS) is a novel approach for mapping knowledge across two domains. Given a source domain knowledge concerning the Moon, “The Moon is a satellite of the...
Much evidence has shown that prediction markets, when used in isolation, can effectively aggregate dispersed information about uncertain future events and produce remarkably accur...
Yiling Chen, Xi Alice Gao, Rick Goldstein, Ian A. ...
Consider the problem of protecting endangered species by selecting patches of land to be used for conservation purposes. Typically, the availability of patches changes over time, ...
Daniel Golovin, Andreas Krause, Beth Gardner, Sara...
We study iterative randomized greedy algorithms for generating (elimination) orderings with small induced width and state space size - two parameters known to bound the complexity...
Kalev Kask, Andrew Gelfand, Lars Otten, Rina Decht...
The automated processing of multiple seismic signals to detect and localize seismic events is a central tool in both geophysics and nuclear treaty verification. This paper report...
Nimar S. Arora, Stuart Russell, Paul Kidwell, Erik...
With smart-phones becoming increasingly commonplace, there has been a subsequent surge in applications that continuously track the location of users. However, serious privacy conc...