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WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
On the bursty evolution of blogspace
We propose two new tools to address the evolution of hyperlinked corpora. First, we define time graphs to extend the traditional notion of an evolving directed graph, capturing li...
Ravi Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, And...
KDD
2004
ACM
173views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
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A microeconomic data mining problem: customer-oriented catalog segmentation
The microeconomic framework for data mining [7] assumes that an enterprise chooses a decision maximizing the overall utility over all customers where the contribution of a custome...
Martin Ester, Rong Ge, Wen Jin, Zengjian Hu
POPL
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Program verification as probabilistic inference
In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for proving the validity or invalidity of a pre/postcondition pair for a program. The algorithm is motivated by the success of the algori...
Sumit Gulwani, Nebojsa Jojic
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
200views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
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Data Bubbles: Quality Preserving Performance Boosting for Hierarchical Clustering
In this paper, we investigate how to scale hierarchical clustering methods (such as OPTICS) to extremely large databases by utilizing data compression methods (such as BIRCH or ra...
Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peer Kr&oum...
PODS
2001
ACM
127views Database» more  PODS 2001»
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Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, Moni Naor