This paper focuses on online gift exchange in a setting where online and offline interactions are tightly intertwined and most of the exchanges require face-to-face interaction to...
Abstract. The modularity of Service-oriented Architectures (SOA) allows to establish complex distributed systems comprising e.g., services, clients, brokers, and workflow engines. ...
The popularity of social information systems has been driven by their ability to help users manage, organize and share online resources. Though the research exploring the use of ta...
Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in Markov Random Fields (MRFs) is an NP-hard problem, and thus research has focussed on either finding efficiently solvable subclasses (e.g. t...
Dhruv Batra, Andrew Gallagher, Devi Parikh, Tsuhan...
Abstract. Image matting and segmentation are two closely related topics that concern extracting the foreground and background of an image. While the methods based on global optimiz...