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KDD
2008
ACM
142views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Efficient ticket routing by resolution sequence mining
IT problem management calls for quick identification of resolvers to reported problems. The efficiency of this process highly depends on ticket routing--transferring problem ticke...
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos A...
KDD
2003
ACM
266views Data Mining» more  KDD 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
Applying data mining in investigating money laundering crimes
In this paper, we study the problem of applying data mining to facilitate the investigation of money laundering crimes (MLCs). We have identified a new paradigm of problems --- th...
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, John J. Salerno, Philip S. ...
STOC
2004
ACM
121views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 9 months ago
Lower bounds for dynamic connectivity
We prove an (lg n) cell-probe lower bound on maintaining connectivity in dynamic graphs, as well as a more general trade-off between updates and queries. Our bound holds even if t...
Mihai Patrascu, Erik D. Demaine
PODS
2007
ACM
159views Database» more  PODS 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Generalized hypertree decompositions: np-hardness and tractable variants
The generalized hypertree width GHW(H) of a hypergraph H is a measure of its cyclicity. Classes of conjunctive queries or constraint satisfaction problems whose associated hypergr...
Georg Gottlob, Thomas Schwentick, Zoltán Mi...
SPAA
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Admission control to minimize rejections and online set cover with repetitions
We study the admission control problem in general networks. Communication requests arrive over time, and the online algorithm accepts or rejects each request while maintaining the...
Noga Alon, Yossi Azar, Shai Gutner