Graphs are powerful vehicles to represent data objects that are interconnecting or interacting with each other. We explore random walks on various kinds of graph to address different searching and mining scenarios. This ...

Popular products often attract an astonishing number of user reviews. Sifting through them by the thousands can be quite a headache, one that has inspired solutions like unique phrase identification (e.g., Yelp) and ...

In recent years, multicore processors have been receiving a significant amount of attention from avionic and automotive industries as the demand for high-end real-time applications drastically increases. However, the ...

We explore methods of weakly supervised learning from referring expression. Unlike traditional fully supervised semantic segmentation of object recognition tasks, in which a a small set of discrete class bases is provided, ...

Well-centered meshes (meshes composed of well-centered simplices) have the advantage of having nice orthogonal dual meshes (the dual Voronoi diagram), which is useful for certain numerical algorithms that require or prefer ...

Distributed systems are getting bigger and more complex. While the complexity of large-scale distributed systems has been acknowledged to be an important challenge, there has not been much work in defining or measuring ...

Adaptation of models to a new domain is important for many natural language tasks. Because without adaptation, NLP tools trained on news domain achieve sub par results on other domains. In many practical scenarios, the ...

During the spring of 2011 pressure was asserted by the department on the enrollment in CS424 Real-Time Systems due to its low enrollment. The result of that pressure was a curriculum update, removal of the CS431 Embedded ...

A cycle-stealing DMA I/O task is allowed to proceed only when the CPU does not need the system bus. As a result, the execution time of a cycle-stealing DMA I/O task is affected by a set of CPU tasks which execute concurrently ...

Instructors are increasingly using algorithmic tools for team formation, yet little is known about how these tools are applied or how students and instructors perceive their use. We studied a representative team formation ...