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2008
ACM
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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
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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
2008
ACM
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A family of dissimilarity measures between nodes generalizing both the shortest-path and the commute-time distances
This work introduces a new family of link-based dissimilarity measures between nodes of a weighted directed graph. This measure, called the randomized shortest-path (RSP) dissimil...
Luh Yen, Marco Saerens, Amin Mantrach, Masashi Shi...
KDD
2007
ACM
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Exploiting duality in summarization with deterministic guarantees
Summarization is an important task in data mining. A major challenge over the past years has been the efficient construction of fixed-space synopses that provide a deterministic q...
Panagiotis Karras, Dimitris Sacharidis, Nikos Mamo...
KDD
2007
ACM
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Structural and temporal analysis of the blogosphere through community factorization
The blogosphere has unique structural and temporal properties since blogs are typically used as communication media among human individuals. In this paper, we propose a novel tech...
Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Xiaodan Song, Jun'ichi Tate...