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SSDBM
2010
IEEE
142views Database» more  SSDBM 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Efficient and Adaptive Distributed Skyline Computation
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
George Valkanas, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos
STOC
2009
ACM
167views Algorithms» more  STOC 2009»
14 years 10 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
AAAI
2008
14 years 10 days ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy and Personalization
Online services such as web search, news portals, and ecommerce applications face the challenge of providing highquality experiences to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent ef...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz
LWA
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Learning User-Adaptive State Models in a Conversational Recommender System
Typical conversational recommender systems support interactive strategies that are hard-coded in advance and followed rigidly during a recommendation session. In fact, Reinforceme...
Tariq Mahmood, Francesco Ricci
AICOM
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Qualitative pattern matching with linguistic terms
Abstract. In the framework of possibility theory, a tool named `fuzzy pattern matching' (FPM) has been proposed in the eighties and since successfully used in flexible queryin...
Yannick Loiseau, Henri Prade, Mohand Boughanem