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2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Generalized distances between rankings
Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
Ravi Kumar, Sergei Vassilvitskii
IDEAS
2009
IEEE
111views Database» more  IDEAS 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Semantics of a runtime adaptable transaction manager
Database Management Systems (DBMSs) that can be tailored to specific requirements offer the potential to improve reliability and maintainability and simultaneously the ability t...
Florian Irmert, Frank Lauterwald, Christoph P. Neu...
DIGRA
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Liberal Sims?: Simulated Difference and the Commodity of Social Diversity
This paper outlines how representations of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity intersect with strategies of late capitalism in The Sims, arguably the most popular video game of ...
A. Brady Curlew
COMPGEOM
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A kinetic triangulation scheme for moving points in the plane
We present a simple randomized scheme for triangulating a set P of n points in the plane, and construct a kinetic data structure which maintains the triangulation as the points of...
Haim Kaplan, Natan Rubin, Micha Sharir
HICSS
2002
IEEE
143views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
14 years 2 months ago
Business Intelligence in Healthcare Organizations
The management of healthcare organizations starts to recognize the relevance of the definition of care products in relation to management information. In the turmoil between costs...
Ton A. M. Spil, Robert A. Stegwee, Christian J. A....