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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 ...
Learning Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes Using Abstract Actions
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-10)
Transfer learning and Abstraction are among the new and most interesting research topics in AI and address the use of learned knowledge to improve learning performance in subsequent tasks. While there has been significant ...
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, ...
Graphical Event-Directed Scenario Behavioral Specifications for the Scenario-Based Engineering Process (SEP) Using A Domain Specific Software Architecture (ASSA) Philosophy
(Computer Science, 2014-06-17)
This thesis extends scenarios of a system into real-time event digraphs. A scenario is an event trace resulting from a particular thread of system execution. An event digraph is an event network. Multiple external stimuli ...
Linking Entity Profiles
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-09-17)
Entity linking allows one to have collections of data from multiple sources as a global dataset and then query those data. Entity linking allows us to do knowledge discovery on this global dataset which might result in the ...
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 ...
Modeling An Intelligent Intruder In A Region Monitored By A Wireless Sensor Network
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Monitoring to detect unauthorized border crossing is very important for protecting national security. To accomplish this by continuous physical monitoring by border patrol agents is impractical. Networks of low-cost wireless ...