This article discusses in detail the rating system that won the kaggle competition "Chess Ratings: Elo vs the rest of the world". The competition provided a historical d...
We address the non-redundant random generation of k words of length n from a context-free language. Additionally, we want to avoid a predefined set of words. We study the limits of...
: For industrial product design, it is very important to take into account assembly/disassembly and maintenance operations during the conceptual and prototype design stage. For the...
Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient priva...
A report is provided for the ACM SIGKDD community about the 2010 Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Data Sets (MMDS 2010), its origin in MMDS 2006 and MMDS 2008, and future...
We establish a simple generalization of a known result in the plane. The simplices in any pure simplicial complex in Rd may be colored with d+1 colors so that no two simplices tha...
In the last years an increasing demand for Grid Infrastructures has result edin several international collaborations. This is the case of the EELA Project, which has brought togeth...
We consider the discrepancy problem of coloring n intervals with k colors such that at each point on the line, the maximal difference between the number of intervals of any two co...