This paper shares our experience in designing a web crawler that can download billions of pages using a single-server implementation and models its performance. We show that with ...
We discuss the use of social networks in implementing viral marketing strategies. While influence maximization has been studied in this context (see Chapter 24 of [10]), we study ...
Jason D. Hartline, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Mukund Sunda...
GPGPUs have recently emerged as powerful vehicles for generalpurpose high-performance computing. Although a new Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) programming model from N...
This paper addresses the repeated acquisition of labels for data items when the labeling is imperfect. We examine the improvement (or lack thereof) in data quality via repeated la...
Victor S. Sheng, Foster J. Provost, Panagiotis G. ...
In this paper, we introduce and study the Minimum Consistent Subset Cover (MCSC) problem. Given a finite ground set X and a constraint t, find the minimum number of consistent sub...
Byron J. Gao, Martin Ester, Jin-yi Cai, Oliver Sch...