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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2010
ACM
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
TEC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Nurse rostering is a difficult search problem with many constraints. In the literature, a number of approaches have been investigated including penalty function methods to tackle t...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Discovering a bucket order B from a collection of possibly noisy full rankings is a fundamental problem that relates to various applications involving rankings. Informally, a buck...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
A variety of web sites and web based services produce textual lists at varying time granularities ranked according to several criteria. For example, Google Trends produces lists o...
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
In this paper, we consider the problem of keyword query cleaning for structured databases from a probabilistic approach. Keyword query cleaning consists of rewriting the user quer...