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CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient Metadata Generation to Enable Interactive Data Discovery over Large-Scale Scientific Data Collections
Discovering the correct dataset efficiently is critical for computations and effective simulations in scientific experiments. In contrast to searching web documents over the Intern...
Sangmi Lee Pallickara, Shrideep Pallickara, Milija...
KDD
2008
ACM
174views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 10 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, ...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
CareLog: a selective archiving tool for behavior management in schools
Identifying the function of problem behavior can lead to the development of more effective interventions. One way to identify the function is through functional behavior assessmen...
Gillian R. Hayes, Lamar M. Gardere, Gregory D. Abo...
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Combinatorial prediction markets for event hierarchies
We study combinatorial prediction markets where agents bet on the sum of values at any tree node in a hierarchy of events, for example the sum of page views among all the children...
Mingyu Guo, David M. Pennock
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Computational aspects of Shapley's saddles
Game-theoretic solution concepts, such as Nash equilibrium, are playing an ever increasing role in the study of systems of autonomous computational agents. A common criticism of N...
Felix Brandt, Markus Brill, Felix A. Fischer, Paul...