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ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Multi-agent decision support via user-modeling
Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...
Terrence Harvey, Keith S. Decker, Sandra Carberry
STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Universally utility-maximizing privacy mechanisms
A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Publishing fully accurate information ...
Arpita Ghosh, Tim Roughgarden, Mukund Sundararajan
KDD
2007
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Modeling relationships at multiple scales to improve accuracy of large recommender systems
The collaborative filtering approach to recommender systems predicts user preferences for products or services by learning past useritem relationships. In this work, we propose no...
Robert M. Bell, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky
SSD
2009
Springer
145views Database» more  SSD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Versioning of Network Models in a Multiuser Environment
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...
SIGGRAPH
2000
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Sampling plausible solutions to multi-body constraint problems
Traditional collision intensive multi-body simulations are difficult to control due to extreme sensitivity to initial conditions or model parameters. Furthermore, there may be mu...
Stephen Chenney, David A. Forsyth