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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, ...
KDD
2007
ACM
165views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Finding low-entropy sets and trees from binary data
The discovery of subsets with special properties from binary data has been one of the key themes in pattern discovery. Pattern classes such as frequent itemsets stress the co-occu...
Eino Hinkkanen, Hannes Heikinheimo, Heikki Mannila...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Work coordination, workflow, and workarounds in a medical context
In this paper we report an ethnographic study of workarounds--informal temporary practices for handling exceptions to normal workflow--in a hospital environment. Workarounds are a...
Marina Kobayashi, Susan R. Fussell, Yan Xiao, F. J...
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Cyclic proofs of program termination in separation logic
We propose a novel approach to proving the termination of heapmanipulating programs, which combines separation logic with cyclic proof within a Hoare-style proof system. Judgement...
James Brotherston, Richard Bornat, Cristiano Calca...
PODS
2008
ACM
165views Database» more  PODS 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Data exchange and schema mappings in open and closed worlds
In the study of data exchange one usually assumes an openworld semantics, making it possible to extend instances of target schemas. An alternative closed-world semantics only move...
Leonid Libkin, Cristina Sirangelo