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STOC
2007
ACM
140views Algorithms» more  STOC 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
On the submodularity of influence in social networks
We prove and extend a conjecture of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (KKT) on the spread of influence in social networks. A social network can be represented by a directed graph where...
Elchanan Mossel, Sébastien Roch
VLDB
2007
ACM
118views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Materialized Views in Probabilistic Databases for Information Exchange and Query Optimization
Views over probabilistic data contain correlations between tuples, and the current approach is to capture these correlations using explicit lineage. In this paper we propose an al...
Christopher Re, Dan Suciu
PODS
2007
ACM
142views Database» more  PODS 2007»
16 years 4 months ago
Quasi-inverses of schema mappings
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. Two operators on schema mappings, namely the composition operator and th...
Ronald Fagin, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Lucian Popa, Wa...
MOBIHOC
2007
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Distributed opportunistic scheduling for ad-hoc communications: an optimal stopping approach
We consider distributed opportunistic scheduling (DOS) in wireless ad-hoc networks, where many links contend for the same channel using random access. In such networks, distribute...
Dong Zheng, Weiyan Ge, Junshan Zhang
WSDM
2010
ACM
245views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
16 years 1 months ago
Improving Quality of Training Data for Learning to Rank Using Click-Through Data
In information retrieval, relevance of documents with respect to queries is usually judged by humans, and used in evaluation and/or learning of ranking functions. Previous work ha...
Jingfang Xu, Chuanliang Chen, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Elbi...