In this study, we formalize a multi-focal learning problem, where training data are partitioned into several different focal groups and the prediction model will be learned within...
Yong Ge, Hui Xiong, Wenjun Zhou, Ramendra K. Sahoo...
A recent study by two prominent finance researchers, Fama and French, introduces a new framework for studying risk vs. return: the migration of stocks across size-value portfolio ...
Xiaoxi Du, Ruoming Jin, Liang Ding, Victor E. Lee,...
The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumergenerated product reviews have become a valuable source of inf...
Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeir...
In many data mining applications, online labeling feedback is only available for examples which were predicted to belong to the positive class. Such applications include spam filt...
The need for mining causality, beyond mere statistical correlations, for real world problems has been recognized widely. Many of these applications naturally involve temporal data...