Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
Background: The construction of complex spatial simulation models such as those used in network epidemiology, is a daunting task due to the large amount of data involved in their ...
Component-based software construction is widely used in a variety of applications, from embedded environments to grid computing. However, errors in these applications and systems ...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
We present a two-step method to speed-up object detection systems in computer vision that use Support Vector Machines (SVMs) as classifiers. In a first step we perform feature red...
Bernd Heisele, Thomas Serre, Sayan Mukherjee, Toma...