The emergence of general audience digital libraries (GADLs) defines a context that represents a hybrid of both ``traditional'' IR, using primarily bibliographic resource...
The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
We define CWS, a non-preemptive scheduling policy for workloads with correlated job sizes. CWS tackles the scheduling problem by inferring the expected sizes of upcoming jobs bas...
Credit scoring is a method of modelling potential risk of credit applications. Traditionally, logistic regression, linear regression and discriminant analysis are the most popular...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to model shape variations. It encodes sparsity, exploits geometric redundancy, and accounts for the different degrees of local variation...