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ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Finding approximate competitive equilibria: efficient and fair course allocation
In the course allocation problem, a university administrator seeks to efficiently and fairly allocate schedules of over-demanded courses to students with heterogeneous preferences...
Abraham Othman, Tuomas Sandholm, Eric Budish
ICDE
2007
IEEE
146views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Index-based Most Similar Trajectory Search
The problem of trajectory similarity in moving object databases is a relatively new topic in the spatial and spatiotemporal database literature. Existing work focuses on the spati...
Elias Frentzos, Kostas Gratsias, Yannis Theodoridi...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
111views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Discovering bucket orders from full rankings
Discovering a bucket order B from a collection of possibly noisy full rankings is a fundamental problem that relates to various applications involving rankings. Informally, a buck...
Jianlin Feng, Qiong Fang, Wilfred Ng
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Answering approximate queries over autonomous web databases
To deal with the problem of empty or too little answers returned from a Web database in response to a user query, this paper proposes a novel approach to provide relevant and rank...
Xiangfu Meng, Z. M. Ma, Li Yan
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A general and efficient method for estimating continuous IBD functions for use in genome scans for QTL
Background: Identity by descent (IBD) matrix estimation is a central component in mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) using variance component models. A large number of algor...
Francois Besnier, Örjan Carlborg