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ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
138views Database» more  SIGMOD 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach
In recent years there has been considerable research on automated selection of physical design in database systems. In current solutions, candidate access paths are heuristically ...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri
WSDM
2009
ACM
125views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
Less is more: sampling the neighborhood graph makes SALSA better and faster
In this paper, we attempt to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of query-dependent link-based ranking algorithms such as HITS, MAX and SALSA. All these ranking algorith...
Marc Najork, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Rina Panigrahy
WABI
2009
Springer
102views Bioinformatics» more  WABI 2009»
14 years 4 months ago
A Tree Based Method for the Rapid Screening of Chemical Fingerprints
Background: The fingerprint of a molecule is a bitstring based on its structure, constructed such that structurally similar molecules will have similar fingerprints. Molecular fin...
Thomas G. Kristensen, Jesper Nielsen, Christian N....
BMCBI
2005
306views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A method for aligning RNA secondary structures and its application to RNA motif detection
Background: Alignment of RNA secondary structures is important in studying functional RNA motifs. In recent years, much progress has been made in RNA motif finding and structure a...
Jianghui Liu, Jason Tsong-Li Wang, Jun Hu, Bin Tia...