Database queries can be broadly classified into two categories: reporting queries and aggregation queries. The former retrieves a collection of records from the database that mat...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
In this paper, we present an event parsing algorithm based on Stochastic Context Sensitive Grammar (SCSG) for understanding events, inferring the goal of agents, and predicting th...
Mingtao Pei, School of Computer Science, Yunde Jia...
We consider a setting in which a principal seeks to induce an adaptive agent to select a target action by providing incentives on one or more actions. The agent maintains a belief...
Yiling Chen, Jerry Kung, David C. Parkes, Ariel D....
Behavioral targeting (BT) leverages historical user behavior to select the ads most relevant to users to display. The state-of-the-art of BT derives a linear Poisson regression mo...