The Dryad and DryadLINQ systems offer a new programming model for large scale data-parallel computing. They generalize previous execution environments such as SQL and MapReduce in...
Given a pair of images represented using bag-of-visual words and a label corresponding to whether the images are “related”(must-link constraint) or “unrelated” (must not li...
Geographically embedded processes with hidden origins are often observable in events they generate. It is common practice in criminological forensics to reverse simple equation-ba...
Social tagging systems have recently emerged as an effective way for users to annotate and organize large collections of resources on the Web. Moreover, they also facilitate an e...
Clustering methods are a useful and common first step in gene expression studies, but the results may be hard to interpret. We bring in explicitly an indicator of which genes tie ...