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FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Sketching and Streaming Entropy via Approximation Theory
We give near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves ...
Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Jelani Nelson, Krzysztof On...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Using Activity Theory to Model Context Awareness: A Qualitative Case Study
In this paper, we describe an approach to modelling contextaware systems starting on the knowledge level. We make use of ideas from Activity Theory to structure the general contex...
Jörg Cassens, Anders Kofod-Petersen
IRI
2003
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Generalizing Interface Design Knowledge: Lessons Learned from Developing a Claims Library
The experience of preparing interface design knowledge to be reusable allows reflection on the process, potential, and general challenges of effectively and efficiently using this...
Catherine Payne, C. F. Allgood, Christa M. Chewar,...
JELIA
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Temporal Theories of Reasoning
: In this paper we describe a general way of formalizing reasoning behaviour. Such a behaviour may be described by all the patterns which are valid for the behaviour. A pattern can...
Joeri Engelfriet, Jan Treur
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Has portfolio theory got any principles?
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen