Abstract. This paper explores potential improvements to Zhang’s personalized trust approach for e-commerce, in particular examining means of optimizing the number of advisors tha...
We study vindictive bidding, a strategic bidding behavior in keyword auctions where a bidder forces his competitor to pay more without affecting his own payment. We show that most...
A good understanding of contact patterns in delay tolerant networks (DTNs) is essential for the design of effective routing schemes. Prior work has typically focused on intercontac...
Abstract. This paper presents a new hybrid split-and-merge image segmentation method based on computational geometry and topology using persistent homology. The algorithm uses edge...
This article, which lies within the data mining framework, proposes a method to build classifiers based on the evolution of rules. The method, named REC (Rule Evolution for Classif...