We introduce an exploration scheme aimed at learning advertiser click-through rates in sponsored search auctions with minimal effect on advertiser incentives. The scheme preserves...
Jennifer Wortman, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Lihong Li,...
FPGAs have appealing features such as customizable internal and external bandwidth and the ability to exploit vast amounts of fine-grain parallelism. In this paper we explore the ...
We propose a practical parallel on-the-fly algorithm for enumerative LTL model-checking. The algorithm is designed for a cluster of workstations communicating via MPI. The detect...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
There has been a great amount of work on query-independent summarization of documents. However, due to the success of Web search engines query-specific document summarization (que...