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New Matrix Completion Models For Social Information Retrieval Application
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Many popular social web sites have emerged during the past decade and completely changed many users' everyday live. Recently, social information retrieval models, where conventional information retrieval meets the social ...
A New Integrative Data Mining Framework For Analyzing The Cancer Genome Atlas Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Besides accuracy and efficiency, understandability is another key issue of predictive modeling in real-world applications, especially in biomedical and healthcare data analysis. We develop a new integrative framework to ...
Inferring Answer Quality, Answerer Expertise, And Ranking In Question Answer Social Networks
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Search has become ubiquitous mainly because of its usage simplicity. Search has made great strides in making information gathering relatively easy and without a learning curve. Question answering services/communities (termed ...
Run-time Compilation And Dynamic Memory Use Analysis For GPUs
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Powerful Graphics Processing Units (commonly called GPUs) are proliferatingrapidly and are becoming a viable choice for a wide range of user applications. Forperforming computationally intensive tasks on these processors, ...
Integrative Approaches For Biological Network Inferences
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Inferring biological networks from high-throughput bioinformatics data is one of the most interesting areas in the systems biology research in order to elucidate cellular and physiological mechanisms. In this thesis, network ...
Adaptive Dialogue Systems For Assistive Living Environments
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Adaptive Dialogue Systems (ADS) are intelligent systems, able to interact with users via multiple modalities, such as speech, gestures, facial expressions and others. Such systems are able to make conversation with their ...
Image Annotation And Feature Engineering Via Structural Sparsity And Low Rank Approximation
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Nowadays, in order to sense environment and understand human behaviors, data analysis plays a more and more important role to handle heterogeneous data ranging from different domains, e.g., image categorization/annotation, ...
Sparse And Large-scale Learning Models And Algorithms For Mining Heterogeneous Big Data
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
With the development of PC, internet as well as mobile devices, we are facing a data exploding era. On one hand, more and more features can be collected to describe the data, making the size of the data descriptor larger ...
Exploratory Mining Of Collaborative Social Content
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
The widespread use and growing popularity of online collaborative content sites (e.g., Yelp, Amazon, IMDB) has created rich resources for consumers to consult in order to make purchasing decisions on various items such as ...
Viewpoint Invariant Gesture Recognition And 3D Hand Pose Estimation Using RGB-D
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
The broad application domain of the work presented in this thesis is pattern classifi-cation with a focus on gesture recognition and 3D hand pose estimation. One of the main contributions of the proposed thesis is a novel ...