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KDD
2004
ACM
173views Data Mining» more  KDD 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
A microeconomic data mining problem: customer-oriented catalog segmentation
The microeconomic framework for data mining [7] assumes that an enterprise chooses a decision maximizing the overall utility over all customers where the contribution of a custome...
Martin Ester, Rong Ge, Wen Jin, Zengjian Hu
WADS
2009
Springer
226views Algorithms» more  WADS 2009»
16 years 1 months ago
Online Priority Steiner Tree Problems
Abstract. A central issue in the design of modern communication networks is the provision of Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees at the presence of heterogeneous users. For instanc...
Spyros Angelopoulos
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
96views Database» more  SIGMOD 1998»
15 years 11 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
AAAI
2007
15 years 9 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
UAI
1998
15 years 8 months ago
Structured Reachability Analysis for Markov Decision Processes
Recent research in decision theoretic planning has focussedon making the solution of Markov decision processes (MDPs) more feasible. We develop a family of algorithms for structur...
Craig Boutilier, Ronen I. Brafman, Christopher W. ...