Segmentation based on RFM (Recency, Frequency, and Monetary) has been used for over 50 years by direct marketers to target a subset of their customers, save mailing costs, and imp...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Consider an online ad campaign run by an advertiser. The ad serving companies that handle such campaigns record users' behavior that leads to impressions of campaign ads, as ...
Nikolay Archak, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishna...
Background: Feature selection is an important pre-processing task in the analysis of complex data. Selecting an appropriate subset of features can improve classification or cluste...
Assaf Gottlieb, Roy Varshavsky, Michal Linial, Dav...
Background: Selective pressure in molecular evolution leads to uneven distributions of amino acids and nucleotides. In fact one observes correlations among such constituents due t...
Sebastian Bremm, Tobias Schreck, Patrick Boba, Ste...