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TOMACS
2011
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The double CFTP method
We consider the problem of the exact simulation of random variables Z that satisfy the distributional identity Z L = V Y + (1 − V )Z, where V ∈ [0, 1] and Y are independent, an...
Luc Devroye, Lancelot F. James
TALG
2010
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Clustering for metric and nonmetric distance measures
We study a generalization of the k-median problem with respect to an arbitrary dissimilarity measure D. Given a finite set P of size n, our goal is to find a set C of size k such t...
Marcel R. Ackermann, Johannes Blömer, Christi...
CORR
2011
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Privacy-Enhanced Reputation-Feedback Methods to Reduce Feedback Extortion in Online Auctions
In this paper, we study methods for improving the utility and privacy of reputation scores for online auctions, such as used in eBay, so as to reduce the effectiveness of feedbac...
Michael T. Goodrich, Florian Kerschbaum
SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 12 days ago
Automatic term mismatch diagnosis for selective query expansion
People are seldom aware that their search queries frequently mismatch a majority of the relevant documents. This may not be a big problem for topics with a large and diverse set o...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
ICCV
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Dominant Sets and Hierarchical Clustering
Dominant sets are a new graph-theoretic concept that has proven to be relevant in partitional (flat) clustering as well as image segmentation problems. However, in many computer v...
Massimiliano Pavan, Marcello Pelillo