Sciweavers

135 search results - page 20 / 27
» Topics in Multi-User Information Theory
Sort
View
KDD
2010
ACM
244views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Finding effectors in social networks
Assume a network (V, E) where a subset of the nodes in V are active. We consider the problem of selecting a set of k active nodes that best explain the observed activation state, ...
Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi, Dimitrios Gunopu...
SIGCSE
2012
ACM
282views Education» more  SIGCSE 2012»
13 years 8 months ago
Understanding the tenets of agile software engineering: lecturing, exploration and critical thinking
The use of agile principles and practices in software development is becoming a powerful force in today’s workplace. In our quest to develop better products, therefore, it is im...
Shvetha Soundararajan, Amine Chigani, James D. Art...
CIKM
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Term necessity prediction
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
Le Zhao, Jamie Callan
86
Voted
PODS
2003
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2003»
16 years 15 days ago
An information-theoretic approach to normal forms for relational and XML data
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Marcelo Arenas, Leonid Libkin
100
Voted
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic latent query analysis for combining multiple retrieval sources
Combining the output from multiple retrieval sources over the same document collection is of great importance to a number of retrieval tasks such as multimedia retrieval, web retr...
Rong Yan, Alexander G. Hauptmann