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ICDE
1995
IEEE
139views Database» more  ICDE 1995»
16 years 7 months ago
Set-Oriented Mining for Association Rules in Relational Databases
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...
Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arun N. Swami
JAIR
2010
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15 years 4 months ago
Mechanisms for Multi-Unit Auctions
We present an incentive-compatible polynomial-time approximation scheme for multiunit auctions with general k-minded player valuations. The mechanism fully optimizes over an appro...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
16 years 16 days ago
Why should we integrate services, servers, and networking in a data center?
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An endpoint injects a packet with a destination address and the netwo...
Paolo Costa, Thomas Zahn, Antony I. T. Rowstron, G...
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Expressive Banner Ad Auctions and Model-Based Online Optimization for Clearing
We present the design of a banner advertising auction which is considerably more expressive than current designs. We describe a general model of expressive ad contracts/bidding an...
Craig Boutilier, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm,...
FCCM
2008
IEEE
112views VLSI» more  FCCM 2008»
16 years 15 days ago
Power-Aware and Branch-Aware Word-Length Optimization
Power reduction is becoming more important as circuit size increases. This paper presents a tool called PowerCutter which employs accuracy-guaranteed word-length optimization to r...
William G. Osborne, José Gabriel F. Coutinh...