In this position paper we motivate and describe the Congestion Manager (CM), a novel end-system architecture, which enables application adaptation to network congestion. The CM ma...
Hariharan Shankar Rahul, Hari Balakrishnan, Sriniv...
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...
We address the problem of constructing randomized online algorithms for the Metrical Task Systems (MTS) problem on a metric against an oblivious adversary. Restricting our attenti...
Jacob Abernethy, Peter L. Bartlett, Niv Buchbinder...
We introduce one module in a cognitive system that learns the shape of objects by active exploration. More specifically, we propose a feature tracking scheme that makes use of the...
Nicolas Pugeault, Emre Baseski, Dirk Kraft, Floren...
We are developing Companion Cognitive Systems, a new kind of software that can be effectively treated as a collaborator. Aside from their potential utility, we believe this effort...