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NIPS
2007
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On Ranking in Survival Analysis: Bounds on the Concordance Index
In this paper, we show that classical survival analysis involving censored data can naturally be cast as a ranking problem. The concordance index (CI), which quantifies the quali...
Vikas C. Raykar, Harald Steck, Balaji Krishnapuram...
SODA
2008
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
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On allocations that maximize fairness
We consider a problem known as the restricted assignment version of the max-min allocation problem with indivisible goods. There are n items of various nonnegative values and m pl...
Uriel Feige
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AAAI
2004
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PROBCONS: Probabilistic Consistency-Based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
Obtaining an accurate multiple alignment of protein sequences is a difficult computational problem for which many heuristic techniques sacrifice optimality to achieve reasonable r...
Chuong B. Do, Michael Brudno, Serafim Batzoglou
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ECIR
2004
Springer
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Performance Analysis of Distributed Architectures to Index One Terabyte of Text
We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
Fidel Cacheda, Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis
DMIN
2006
144views Data Mining» more  DMIN 2006»
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Discovering Assignment Rules in Workforce Schedules Using Data Mining
Discovering hidden patterns in large sets of workforce schedules to gain insight into the potential knowledge in workforce schedules are crucial to better understanding the workfor...
Jihong Yan