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WSDM
2010
ACM
166views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 3 months ago
Ranking Mechanisms in Twitter-Like Forums
We study the problem of designing a mechanism to rank items in forums by making use of the user reviews such as thumb and star ratings. We compare mechanisms where forum users rat...
Anish Das Sarma, Atish Das Sarma, Sreenivas Gollap...
PODS
2000
ACM
179views Database» more  PODS 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
Towards Optimal Resource Allocation in Partial-Fault Tolerant Applications
—We introduce Zen, a new resource allocation framework that assigns application components to node clusters to achieve high availability for partial-fault tolerant (PFT) applicat...
Nikhil Bansal, Ranjita Bhagwan, Navendu Jain, Yoon...
IHI
2010
197views Healthcare» more  IHI 2010»
13 years 1 months ago
Beyond safe harbor: automatic discovery of health information de-identification policy alternatives
Regulations in various countries permit the reuse of health information without patient authorization provided the data is "de-identified". In the United States, for ins...
Kathleen Benitez, Grigorios Loukides, Bradley Mali...
KDD
2009
ACM
305views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
Grocery shopping recommendations based on basket-sensitive random walk
We describe a recommender system in the domain of grocery shopping. While recommender systems have been widely studied, this is mostly in relation to leisure products (e.g. movies...
Ming Li, M. Benjamin Dias, Ian H. Jarman, Wael El-...