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KDD
2008
ACM
156views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Can complex network metrics predict the behavior of NBA teams?
The United States National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the most popular sports league in the world and is well known for moving a millionary betting market that uses th...
Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro, Pedro O. S. Vaz...
KDD
2008
ACM
174views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Automatic identification of quasi-experimental designs for discovering causal knowledge
Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...
STOC
2003
ACM
188views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
14 years 7 months ago
Almost random graphs with simple hash functions
We describe a simple randomized construction for generating pairs of hash functions h1, h2 from a universe U to ranges V = [m] = {0, 1, . . . , m - 1} and W = [m] so that for ever...
Martin Dietzfelbinger, Philipp Woelfel
STOC
2002
ACM
156views Algorithms» more  STOC 2002»
14 years 7 months ago
Selfish traffic allocation for server farms
We investigate the price of selfish routing in non-cooperative networks in terms of the coordination and bicriteria ratios in the recently introduced game theoretic network model ...
Artur Czumaj, Piotr Krysta, Berthold Vöcking
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
213views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
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Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Fär...