Given a point set S and an unknown metric d on S, we study the problem of efficiently partitioning S into k clusters while querying few distances between the points. In our model ...
Konstantin Voevodski, Maria-Florina Balcan, Heiko ...
The Data Grid, like all other collaboration models, has strict rules for contributors to follow and many criteria to abide with. Namespace is one of the rules that govern the contr...
A recommender system must be able to suggest items that are likely to be preferred by the user. In most systems, the degree of preference is represented by a rating score. Given a...
Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...
The performance of traditional image retrieval approaches remains unsatisfactory, as they are restricted by the wellknown semantic gap and the diversity of textual semantics. To t...
Chuanghua Gui, Jing Liu, Changsheng Xu, Hanqing Lu