For categorical data there does not exist any similarity measure which is as straight forward and general as the numerical distance between numerical items. Due to this it is ofte...
Over the past 15 years, numerous algorithms have been proposed for frequent pattern mining as it plays an essential role in many knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) tasks. M...
In this paper, we present a technique for visual analysis of documents based on the semantic representation of text in the form of a directed graph, referred to as semantic graph....
Delia Rusu, Blaz Fortuna, Dunja Mladenic, Marko Gr...
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based “crowd-sourcing” mo...
The paradigm of “human computation” seeks to harness human abilities to solve computational problems or otherwise perform distributed work that is beyond the scope of current ...
Human computation is an effective way to channel human effort spent playing games to solving computational problems that are easy for humans but difficult for computers to autom...
Ali Dasdan, Chris Drome, Santanu Kolay, Micah Alpe...
Distributed PRocessing in Mobile Environments (DPRiME) is a framework for processing large data sets across an ad-hoc network. Developed to address the shortcomings of Google’s ...
Sean McRoskey, James Notwell, Nitesh V. Chawla, Ch...
To discover patterns in historical data, climate scientists have applied various clustering methods with the goal of identifying regions that share some common climatological beha...
Karsten Steinhaeuser, Nitesh V. Chawla, Auroop R. ...