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ICDE
1995
IEEE
139views Database» more  ICDE 1995»
15 years 10 months ago
Set-Oriented Mining for Association Rules in Relational Databases
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arun N. Swami
JAIR
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Mechanisms for Multi-Unit Auctions
We present an incentive-compatible polynomial-time approximation scheme for multiunit auctions with general k-minded player valuations. The mechanism fully optimizes over an appro...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Why should we integrate services, servers, and networking in a data center?
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a destination address and the netwo...
Paolo Costa, Thomas Zahn, Antony I. T. Rowstron, G...
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AAAI
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Expressive Banner Ad Auctions and Model-Based Online Optimization for Clearing
We present the design of a banner advertising auction which is considerably more expressive than current designs. We describe a general model of expressive ad contracts/bidding an...
Craig Boutilier, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm,...
FCCM
2008
IEEE
112views VLSI» more  FCCM 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Power-Aware and Branch-Aware Word-Length Optimization
Power reduction is becoming more important as circuit size increases. This paper presents a tool called PowerCutter which employs accuracy-guaranteed word-length optimization to r...
William G. Osborne, José Gabriel F. Coutinh...