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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
General auction mechanism for search advertising
In sponsored search, a number of advertising slots is available on a search results page, and have to be allocated among a set of advertisers competing to display an ad on the pag...
Dávid Pál, Gagan Aggarwal, Martin P&...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Two studies of opportunistic programming: interleaving web foraging, learning, and writing code
This paper investigates the role of online resources in problem solving. We look specifically at how programmers--an exemplar form of knowledge workers--opportunistically interlea...
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira ...
POPL
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
STOC
2004
ACM
94views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
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Sublinear algorithms for testing monotone and unimodal distributions
The complexity of testing properties of monotone and unimodal distributions, when given access only to samples of the distribution, is investigated. Two kinds of sublineartime alg...
Tugkan Batu, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
PODS
2007
ACM
171views Database» more  PODS 2007»
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Monadic datalog over finite structures with bounded treewidth
Bounded treewidth and Monadic Second Order (MSO) logic have proved to be key concepts in establishing fixed-parameter tractability results. Indeed, by Courcelle's Theorem we ...
Georg Gottlob, Reinhard Pichler, Fang Wei