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ITICSE
2004
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Use of large databases for group projects at the nexus of teaching and research
Final year, group (capstone) projects in computing disciplines are often expected to fill multiple roles: in addition to allowing students to learn important domain-specific knowl...
Richard C. Thomas, Rebecca Mancy
WWW
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Sampling community structure
We propose a novel method, based on concepts from expander graphs, to sample communities in networks. We show that our sampling method, unlike previous techniques, produces subgra...
Arun S. Maiya, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf
TCC
2005
Springer
102views Cryptology» more  TCC 2005»
15 years 7 months ago
Toward Privacy in Public Databases
Abstract. We initiate a theoretical study of the census problem. Informally, in a census individual respondents give private information to a trusted party (the census bureau), who...
Shuchi Chawla, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Adam...
KDD
2008
ACM
172views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
16 years 2 months ago
Structured metric learning for high dimensional problems
The success of popular algorithms such as k-means clustering or nearest neighbor searches depend on the assumption that the underlying distance functions reflect domain-specific n...
Jason V. Davis, Inderjit S. Dhillon
DATESO
2010
148views Database» more  DATESO 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
Using Spectral Clustering for Finding Students' Patterns of Behavior in Social Networks
Abstract. The high dimensionality of the data generated by social networks has been a big challenge for researchers. In order to solve the problems associated with this phenomenon,...
Gamila Obadi, Pavla Drázdilová, Jan ...