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WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Netprobe: a fast and scalable system for fraud detection in online auction networks
Given a large online network of online auction users and their histories of transactions, how can we spot anomalies and auction fraud? This paper describes the design and implemen...
Shashank Pandit, Duen Horng Chau, Samuel Wang, Chr...
PODS
2009
ACM
112views Database» more  PODS 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Optimal sampling from sliding windows
APPEARED IN ACM PODS-2009. A sliding windows model is an important case of the streaming model, where only the most "recent" elements remain active and the rest are disc...
Vladimir Braverman, Rafail Ostrovsky, Carlo Zaniol...
EDBT
2006
ACM
105views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
HASE: A Hybrid Approach to Selectivity Estimation for Conjunctive Predicates
Current methods for selectivity estimation fall into two broad categories, synopsis-based and sampling-based. Synopsis-based methods, such as histograms, incur minimal overhead at ...
Xiaohui Yu, Nick Koudas, Calisto Zuzarte
ICIP
1999
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Motion Segmentation with Level Sets
Segmentation of motion in an image sequence is one of the most challenging problems in image processing, while at the same time one that finds numerous applications. To date, a wea...
Abdol-Reza Mansouri, Janusz Konrad
FOCS
1995
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Free Bits, PCPs and Non-Approximability - Towards Tight Results
This paper continues the investigation of the connection between probabilistically checkable proofs PCPs the approximability of NP-optimization problems. The emphasis is on prov...
Mihir Bellare, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan