The importance of affect in delivering engaging experiences in entertainment and educational games is well recognized. Yet, current techniques for building affect-aware games are l...
The key limiting factor in graphical model inference and learning is the complexity of the partition function. We thus ask the question: what are the most general conditions under...
In spite of decades of research on virtual worlds, our understanding of one popular form of virtual world behavior— raiding—remains limited. Raiding is important because it en...
The problem of simultaneous feature extraction and selection, for classifier design, is considered. A new framework is proposed, based on boosting algorithms that can either 1) s...
Although Regular Expressions (RegExes) have been widely used in network security applications, their inherent complexity often limits the total number of RegExes that can be detec...