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WSDM
2012
ACM
254views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
Maximizing product adoption in social networks
One of the key objectives of viral marketing is to identify a small set of users in a social network, who when convinced to adopt a product will influence others in the network l...
Smriti Bhagat, Amit Goyal 0002, Laks V. S. Lakshma...
JMLR
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Near-Optimal Sensor Placements in Gaussian Processes: Theory, Efficient Algorithms and Empirical Studies
When monitoring spatial phenomena, which can often be modeled as Gaussian processes (GPs), choosing sensor locations is a fundamental task. There are several common strategies to ...
Andreas Krause, Ajit Paul Singh, Carlos Guestrin
KDD
2012
ACM
187views Data Mining» more  KDD 2012»
11 years 9 months ago
Online learning to diversify from implicit feedback
In order to minimize redundancy and optimize coverage of multiple user interests, search engines and recommender systems aim to diversify their set of results. To date, these dive...
Karthik Raman, Pannaga Shivaswamy, Thorsten Joachi...
CORR
2011
Springer
177views Education» more  CORR 2011»
13 years 1 months ago
A Truthful Randomized Mechanism for Combinatorial Public Projects via Convex Optimization
In Combinatorial Public Projects, there is a set of projects that may be undertaken, and a set of selfinterested players with a stake in the set of projects chosen. A public plann...
Shaddin Dughmi
CPAIOR
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal Interdiction of Unreactive Markovian Evaders
The interdiction problem arises in a variety of areas including military logistics, infectious disease control, and counter-terrorism. In the typical formulation of network interdi...
Alexander Gutfraind, Aric A. Hagberg, Feng Pan