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VLDB
1994
ACM
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Qualified Answers That Reflect User Needs and Preferences
This paper introduces a formalism to describe the needs and preferences of database users. Because of the precise formulation of these concepts, we have found an automatic and ver...
Terry Gaasterland, Jorge Lobo
AIME
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Data-Efficient Information-Theoretic Test Selection
We use the concept of conditional mutual information (MI) to approach problems involving the selection of variables in the area of medical diagnosis. Computing MI requires estimate...
Marianne Mueller, Rómer Rosales, Harald Ste...
CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Churn Prediction in MMORPGs: A Social Influence Based Approach
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are computer based games in which players interact with one another in the virtual world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs h...
Jaya Kawale, Aditya Pal, Jaideep Srivastava
HUC
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Playful bottle: a mobile social persuasion system to motivate healthy water intake
This study of mobile persuasion system explores the use of a mobile phone, when attached to an everyday object used by an everyday behavior, becomes a tool to sense and influence ...
Meng-Chieh Chiu, Shih-Ping Chang, Yu-Chen Chang, H...
DCOSS
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient In-Network Processing Through Local Ad-Hoc Information Coalescence
We consider in-network processing via local message passing. The considered setting involves a set of sensors each of which can communicate with a subset of other sensors. There is...
Onur Savas, Murat Alanyali, Venkatesh Saligrama