Recommender systems perform much better on users for which they have more information. This gives rise to a problem of satisfying users new to a system. The problem is even more a...
We describe the activities of the Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) group at Microsoft Research. We highlight our research themes and activities using examples from our researc...
Christian Bird, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappa...
A simple game is a pair consisting of a finite set N of players and a set W ⊆ 2N of winning coalitions. (Vector-)weighted majority games ((V)WMG) are a special case of simple ga...
We consider sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods for solving constrained nonlinear programming problems. It is generally believed that SQP methods are sensitive to the a...
Abstract—Backbone anatomical structure detection and labeling is a necessary step for various analysis tasks of the vertebral column. Appearance, shape and geometry measurements ...