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SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Fingerprinting Ratings for Collaborative Filtering - Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Abstract. We consider fingerprinting methods for collaborative filtering (CF) systems. In general, CF systems show their real strength when supplied with enormous data sets. Earl...
Yoram Bachrach, Ralf Herbrich
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Why Large Closest String Instances Are Easy to Solve in Practice
We initiate the study of the smoothed complexity of the Closest String problem by proposing a semi-random model of Hamming distance. We restrict interest to the optimization versio...
Christina Boucher, Kathleen Wilkie
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Dual-Sorted Inverted Lists
Several IR tasks rely, to achieve high efficiency, on a single pervasive data structure called the inverted index. This is a mapping from the terms in a text collection to the docu...
Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Puglisi
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Colored Range Queries and Document Retrieval
Abstract. Colored range queries are a well-studied topic in computational geometry and database research that, in the past decade, have found exciting applications in information r...
Travis Gagie, Gonzalo Navarro, Simon J. Puglisi
SPIRE
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
String Matching with Variable Length Gaps
We consider string matching with variable length gaps. Given a string T and a pattern P consisting of strings separated by variable length gaps (arbitrary strings of length in a sp...
Philip Bille, Inge Li Gørtz, Hjalte Wedel V...