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KDD
2010
ACM
244views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Finding effectors in social networks
Assume a network (V, E) where a subset of the nodes in V are active. We consider the problem of selecting a set of k active nodes that best explain the observed activation state, ...
Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi, Dimitrios Gunopu...
PPSN
2000
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
159views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Sketch-Based Summarization of Ordered XML Streams
XML streams, such as RSS feeds or complex event streams, are becoming increasingly pervasive as they provide the foundation for a wide range of emerging applications. An important...
Veronica Mayorga, Neoklis Polyzotis
STOC
2006
ACM
132views Algorithms» more  STOC 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Near-optimal algorithms for unique games
Unique games are constraint satisfaction problems that can be viewed as a generalization of Max-Cut to a larger domain size. The Unique Games Conjecture states that it is hard to ...
Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makary...
DCC
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Towards Practical Minimum-Entropy Universal Decoding
Minimum-entropy decoding is a universal decoding algorithm used in decoding block compression of discrete memoryless sources as well as block transmission of information across di...
Todd P. Coleman, Muriel Médard, Michelle Ef...