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2010
ACM
14 years 17 days ago
Access: news and blog analysis for the social sciences
The social sciences strive to understand the political, social, and cultural world around us, but have been impaired by limited access to the quantitative data sources enjoyed by ...
Mikhail Bautin, Charles B. Ward, Akshay Patil, Ste...
HPCN
1998
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
PARAFLOW: A Dataflow Distributed Data-Computing System
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
Roy Williams, Bruce Sears
KDD
2010
ACM
215views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
14 years 4 days ago
On the quality of inferring interests from social neighbors
This paper intends to provide some insights of a scientific problem: how likely one’s interests can be inferred from his/her social connections – friends, friends’ friends,...
Zhen Wen, Ching-Yung Lin
KDD
2010
ACM
293views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
14 years 1 days ago
BioSnowball: automated population of Wikis
Internet users regularly have the need to find biographies and facts of people of interest. Wikipedia has become the first stop for celebrity biographies and facts. However, Wik...
Xiaojiang Liu, Zaiqing Nie, Nenghai Yu, Ji-Rong We...
ICDCS
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Specifying Weak Sets
nt formal speci cations of a new abstraction, weak sets, which can be used to alleviate high latencies when retrieving data from a wide-area information system like the World Wide...
Jeannette M. Wing, David C. Steere