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AAAI
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Restart Schedules for Ensembles of Problem Instances
The mean running time of a Las Vegas algorithm can often be dramatically reduced by periodically restarting it with a fresh random seed. The optimal restart schedule depends on th...
Matthew J. Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Stephen F. Sm...
NAACL
2010
14 years 12 months ago
Not All Seeds Are Equal: Measuring the Quality of Text Mining Seeds
Open-class semantic lexicon induction is of great interest for current knowledge harvesting algorithms. We propose a general framework that uses patterns in bootstrapping fashion ...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard H. Hovy
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
185views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 2 months ago
Attacks on privacy and deFinetti's theorem
In this paper we present a method for reasoning about privacy using the concepts of exchangeability and deFinetti's theorem. We illustrate the usefulness of this technique by...
Daniel Kifer
KDD
2008
ACM
156views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
16 years 2 months ago
Can complex network metrics predict the behavior of NBA teams?
The United States National Basketball Association (NBA) is one of the most popular sports league in the world and is well known for moving a millionary betting market that uses th...
Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro, Pedro O. S. Vaz...
ACMACE
2006
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
How real should virtual characters be?
In recent years 3D virtual characters have become more common in desktop interfaces, particularly in gaming and entertainment applications. In this paper we describe how augmented...
Daniel Wagner, Mark Billinghurst, Dieter Schmalsti...