Purpose – The author listened to many major corporate players discuss the brave new world of brand conversations and content engagement at the 2011 CM (“Conversational Marketing”) Summit in New York. This paper aims to reveal his conclusion is that we have a lot of new lessons to learn...

We consider generalized monotone functions f: X -- {0,1} defined for an arbitrary binary relation = on X by the property x = y implies f(x) = f(y). These include the standard monotone (or positive) Boolean functions, regular Boolean functions and other interesting functions as special cases. It...

We consider generalized monotone functions f: X -- {0,1} defined for an arbitrary binary relation = on X by the property x = y implies f(x) = f(y). These include the standard monotone (or positive) Boolean functions, regular Boolean functions and other interesting functions as special cases. It...

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machineprocessable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner.It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or...

Extracting information from text is the task of obtaining structured, machine-processable facts from information that is mentioned in an unstructured manner. It thus allows systems to automatically aggregate information for further analysis, efficient retrieval, automatic validation, or...

Mosheiov and Sidney (2003) showed that the makespan minimization problem with job-dependent learning effects can be formulated as an assignment problem and solved in O(n3) time. We show that this problem can be solved in O(nlog n) time by sequencing the jobs according to the shortest processing...

A collaborative filtering system recommends to users products that similar users like. Collaborative filtering systems influence purchase decisions and hence have become targets of manipulation by unscrupulous vendors. We demonstrate that nearest neighbors algorithms, which are widely used in...