Preface to BPM 2015

– Preface – SIGIR 2015

In this keynote we give an introduction to wisdom of crowds in the Web, the long tail of web content, and the bias involved in the generation of user generated content (UGC). This bias creates the wisdom of ad hoc crowds or the wisdom of a few. Although it is well known that user activity in most settings follows a power law, that is, few people do a lot, while most do nothing, there are few st...

Conference on Learning Theory 2015: Preface

These proceedings contain the 70 papers accepted to and presented at the 28th Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), held in Paris, France on July 2-6, 2015. These papers were selected by the program committee with additional help from external expert reviewers from 180 submissions. Of the 70 papers, 19 were given a 20-minute presentation, the remaining 51 a 5-minute presentation. All authors we...

PREFACE

Preface

PREFACE