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2009
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Tiered Fault Tolerance for Long-Term Integrity
Fault-tolerant services typically make assumptions about the type and maximum number of faults that they can tolerate while providing their correctness guarantees; when such a fau...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
NIPS
2007
14 years 10 days ago
Learning and using relational theories
Much of human knowledge is organized into sophisticated systems that are often called intuitive theories. We propose that intuitive theories are mentally represented in a logical ...
Charles Kemp, Noah Goodman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
COSIT
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
Semantic Categories Underlying the Meaning of 'Place'
Abstract. This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is h...
Brandon Bennett, Pragya Agarwal
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A geometric interpretation of r-precision and its correlation with average precision
We consider two of the most commonly cited measures of retrieval performance: average precision and R-precision. It is well known that average precision and R-precision are highly...
Javed A. Aslam, Emine Yilmaz, Virgiliu Pavlu
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Dynamics of bidding in a P2P lending service: effects of herding and predicting loan success
Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending services are a new type of social platform that enables individuals borrow and lend money directly from one to another. In this paper, we study t...
Simla Ceyhan, Xiaolin Shi, Jure Leskovec