Chronische Patienten bleiben im Alltag oft auf sich allein gestellt. Eine Studiengruppe der FH St. Pölten entwickelt ein Peer-Projekt, in dem Betroffene anderen Betroffenen mithilfe einer Messenger-App und des Smartphones Unterstützung geben.

We present a study of the contributions of three classes of ranking signals: BM25F, a retrieval function that is based on words in the content of web pages and the anchors that link to them; SALSA, a link-based feature that takes all or part of the result set to a query as input; and matching-anchor count (MAC), a feature that measures precise matches between queries and anchors pointing to res...

Electronic trading venues are autonomous and equal in their basic functionality providing a platform for trading of stocks, where prices are generated and transactions are performed. They can be seen as peers. Electronic trading venues in the United States are linked together through the central National Market System (NMS) and a set of rules enabling communication on this network, the Regulati...

This paper addresses the challenge of learning from peers in an online multitask setting. Instead of always requesting a label from a human oracle, the proposed method first determines if the learner for each task can acquire that label with sufficient confidence from its peers either as a task-similarity weighted sum, or from the single most similar task. If so, it saves the oracle query for l...