Though Twitter acts as a realtime news source with people acting as sensors and sending event updates from all over the world, rumors spread via Twitter have been noted to cause c...
Planning under uncertainty is an important and challenging problem in multiagent systems. Multiagent Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (MPOMDPs) provide a powerful fr...
The flourishing of online labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) makes it easy to recruit many workers for solving small tasks. We study whether information elicita...
Thomas Pfeiffer, Xi Alice Gao, Yiling Chen, Andrew...
Person recognition using facial features, e.g., mug-shot images, has long been used in identity documents. However, due to the widespread use of web-cams and mobile devices embedd...
Crawling the web is deceptively simple: the basic algorithm is (a) Fetch a page (b) Parse it to extract all linked URLs (c) For all the URLs not seen before, repeat (a)?(c). Howev...