We consider auction design in a setting with costly preference elicitation. Well designed auctions can help to avoid unnecessary elicitation while determining efficient allocations...
Most successful object recognition systems rely on binary classification, deciding only if an object is present or not, but not providing information on the actual object location...
Christoph H. Lampert, Matthew B. Blaschko, Thomas ...
This paper presents a method for measuring the semantic similarity of texts, using corpus-based and knowledge-based measures of similarity. Previous work on this problem has focus...
Expert decision-makers often explain decisions by citing general principles. In some domains, however, it is nearly impossible to define principles intensionally so that they may ...
Soon, much of the data exchanged over the Internet will be encoded in XML, allowing for sophisticated filtering and content-based routing. We have built a filtering engine called ...
Yanlei Diao, Peter M. Fischer, Michael J. Franklin...