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KDD
2002
ACM
127views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 11 months ago
Mining knowledge-sharing sites for viral marketing
Viral marketing takes advantage of networks of influence among customers to inexpensively achieve large changes in behavior. Our research seeks to put it on a firmer footing by mi...
Matthew Richardson, Pedro Domingos
STOC
2007
ACM
100views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Reordering buffers for general metric spaces
In the reordering buffer problem, we are given an input sequence of requests for service each of which corresponds to a point in a metric space. The cost of serving the requests h...
Matthias Englert, Harald Räcke, Matthias West...
STOC
2004
ACM
94views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
14 years 11 months ago
Sublinear algorithms for testing monotone and unimodal distributions
The complexity of testing properties of monotone and unimodal distributions, when given access only to samples of the distribution, is investigated. Two kinds of sublineartime alg...
Tugkan Batu, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBIHOC
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Modeling steady-state and transient behaviors of user mobility: : formulation, analysis, and application
Recent studies on mobility modeling have focused on characterizing user mobility from real traces of wireless LANs (WLANs) and creating mobility models based on such characterizat...
Jong-Kwon Lee, Jennifer C. Hou