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The prediction of academic performance is one of the most important tasks in educational data mining, and has been widely studied in MOOCs and intelligent tutoring systems. Academic performance could be affected with factors like personality, skills, social environment, the use of library books and so on. However, it is still less investigated that how could the use of library books affect academic...
Recent years have witnessed the boom of venture capital industry. Venture capitalists can attain great financial rewards if their invested companies exit successfully, via being acquired or going IPO (Initial Public Offering). The literature has revealed that, from both financial and managerial perspectives, decision-making process and successful rates of venture capital (VC) investments can be greatly...
Multi-task learning aims at learning multiple related but different tasks. In general, there are two ways for multi-task learning. One is to exploit the small set of labeled data from all tasks to learn a shared feature space for knowledge sharing. In this way, the focus is on the labeled training samples while the large amount of unlabeled data is not sufficiently considered. Another way has a focus...
Bike sharing systems, aiming at providing the missing links in the public transportation systems, are becoming popular in urban cities. In an ideal bike sharing network, the station locations are usually selected in a way that there are balanced pick-ups and drop-offs among stations. This can help avoid expensive re-balancing operations and maintain high user satisfaction. However, it is a challenging...
Buying a house is not only an emotional desire, but also a popular investment option. However, housing markets lack of tools and relevant systems of complete evaluation for house values. To this end, in this paper, we provide a discovery system for finding high-value homes. Unlike traditional housing price models, the proposed discovery system has taken both urban geography information and human mobility...
Social media has become one of the most popular marketing channels for many companies, which aims at maximizing their influence by various marketing campaigns conducted from their official accounts on social networks. However, most of these marketing accounts merely focus on the contents of their tweets. Less effort has been made on understanding tweeting time, which is a major contributing factor...
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