We formulate and study a new variant of the k-armed bandit problem, motivated by e-commerce applications. In our model, arms have (stochastic) lifetime after which they expire. In...
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Filip Radlinski,...
Regular Expressions (REs) form the basis of most XML type languages, such as DTDs, XML Schema types, and XDuce types (Thompson et al. 2004; Hosoya and Pierce 2003). In this contex...
We study communication in known topology radio networks with the presence of interference constraints. We consider a real-world situation, when a transmission of a node produces an...
In this paper, we show that classical survival analysis involving censored data can naturally be cast as a ranking problem. The concordance index (CI), which quantifies the quali...
Vikas C. Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram...
Local pattern mining algorithms generate sets of patterns, which are typically not directly useful and have to be further processed before actual application or interpretation. Ra...