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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Directly optimizing evaluation measures in learning to rank
One of the central issues in learning to rank for information retrieval is to develop algorithms that construct ranking models by directly optimizing evaluation measures used in i...
Jun Xu, Tie-Yan Liu, Min Lu, Hang Li, Wei-Ying Ma
FOCS
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Hardness of Being Truthful
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
ICDE
2011
IEEE
238views Database» more  ICDE 2011»
13 years 5 days ago
Join queries on uncertain data: Semantics and efficient processing
— Uncertain data is quite common nowadays in a variety of modern database applications. At the same time, the join operation is one of the most important but expensive operations...
Tingjian Ge
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
242views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
Dynamic management of resources and workloads for RDBMS in cloud: a control-theoretic approach
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Pengcheng Xiong
FUZZIEEE
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Tolerance-based and Fuzzy-Rough Feature Selection
— One of the main obstacles facing the application of computational intelligence technologies in pattern recognition (and indeed in many other tasks) is that of dataset dimension...
Richard Jensen, Qiang Shen