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GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Mining user similarity based on location history
The pervasiveness of location-acquisition technologies (GPS, GSM networks, etc.) enable people to conveniently log the location histories they visited with spatio-temporal data. T...
Quannan Li, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Yukun Chen, Wenyu ...
AAAI
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Relational Blocking for Causal Discovery
Blocking is a technique commonly used in manual statistical analysis to account for confounding variables. However, blocking is not currently used in automated learning algorithms...
Matthew J. Rattigan, Marc E. Maier, David Jensen
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Just-in-time query retrieval over partially indexed data on structured P2P overlays
Structured peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays have been successfully employed in many applications to locate content. However, they have been less effective in handling massive amounts o...
Sai Wu, Jianzhong Li, Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 12 hour ago
On Clusterings - Good, Bad and Spectral
We motivate and develop a natural bicriteria measure for assessing the quality of a clustering that avoids the drawbacks of existing measures. A simple recursive heuristic is shown...
Ravi Kannan, Santosh Vempala, Adrian Vetta
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The importance of anchor text for ad hoc search revisited
It is generally believed that propagated anchor text is very important for effective Web search as offered by the commercial search engines. “Google Bombs” are a notable illus...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps