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SIGMOD
2011
ACM
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12 years 11 months ago
Hybrid in-database inference for declarative information extraction
In the database community, work on information extraction (IE) has centered on two themes: how to effectively manage IE tasks, and how to manage the uncertainties that arise in th...
Daisy Zhe Wang, Michael J. Franklin, Minos N. Garo...
LCN
1997
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
The Optimal Virtual Path Design of ATM Networks
This paper studies the optimal configuration of virtual paths in ATM networks. A linear model that minimizes the mrximumjow density of links is proposed for the optimal virtual pa...
Zhigang Qin, Tetiana Lo, Felix F. Wu
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
SP
2008
IEEE
285views Security Privacy» more  SP 2008»
14 years 3 months ago
SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks
Decentralized distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where a malicious user pretends to have multiple identities (called sy...
Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
MB-AIM-FSI: a model based framework for exploiting gradient ascent multiagent learners in strategic interactions
Future agent applications will increasingly represent human users autonomously or semi-autonomously in strategic interactions with similar entities. Hence, there is a growing need...
Doran Chakraborty, Sandip Sen