Abstract. The much-publicized Netflix competition has put the spotlight on the application domain of collaborative filtering and has sparked interest in machine learning algorithms...
The dimensionality reduction problem has been widely studied in the database literature because of its application for concise data representation in a variety of database applica...
We consider segment intersection searching amidst (possibly intersecting) algebraic arcs in the plane. We show how to preprocess n arcs in time O(n2+ ) into a data structure of si...
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custom...
One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation fr...