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KDD
2010
ACM
244views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 4 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»
14 years 1 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
15 years 4 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
PODS
2003
ACM
114views Database» more  PODS 2003»
16 years 6 months 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
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 4 days 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