To improve data availability and resilience MapReduce frameworks use file systems that replicate data uniformly. However, analysis of job logs from a large production cluster show...
This paper presents a customizable system used to develop a collaborative multi-user problem solving game. It addresses the increasing demand for appealing informal learning experi...
Ernesto Arroyo, Valeria Righi, Roger Tarrago, Patr...
Support Vector Machines, SVMs, and the Large Margin Nearest Neighbor algorithm, LMNN, are two very popular learning algorithms with quite different learning biases. In this paper...
Huyen Do, Alexandros Kalousis, Jun Wang, Adam Wozn...
This paper presents a robust face detector under partial occlusion. In recent years, the effectiveness of Support Vector Machine (SVM) to object detection is reported. However, co...
This paper investigates several issues in the problem of detecting handwritten markings, or annotations, on printed documents. One issue is to define the appropriate units over wh...