As wireless technologies evolve, mobile technologies and services will increasingly affect our lives, accompanied by positive and negative effects. This development requires a high...
We describe a theory from Herbert Simon that links the structure of complex systems to increased speed of evolution, and argue the position that this theory can be beneficial to ev...
Jennifer Owen, Susan Stepney, Jonathan Timmis, Ala...
The modeling of the human visual attention into a computational attention model leads to the split of visual features into several independent channels. Then, a difficult problem ...
Christel Chamaret, Jean-Claude Chevet, Olivier Le ...
Most learning to rank research has assumed that the utility of different documents is independent, which results in learned ranking functions that return redundant results. The fe...
Aleksandrs Slivkins, Filip Radlinski, Sreenivas Go...
This paper considers the use of Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to model worst-case execution times. In particular it considers the sacrifice that statistical methods make in the reali...