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PODS
2005
ACM
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16 years 6 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...
LATIN
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Optimal Succinctness for Range Minimum Queries
For a static array A of n totally ordered objects, a range minimum query asks for the position of the minimum between two specified array indices. We show how to preprocess A into...
Johannes Fischer
IRI
2007
IEEE
16 years 28 days ago
Adapting Ratings in Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering using Linear Regression
We show that the standard memory-based collaborative filtering rating prediction algorithm using the Pearson correlation can be improved by adapting user ratings using linear reg...
Jérôme Kunegis, Sahin Albayrak
ECIR
2011
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Introducing the User-over-Ranking Hypothesis
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen
SIGUCCS
2006
ACM
16 years 17 days ago
Better results in mathematics lessons with a virtual personal teacher
In this paper we present the results of an experiment made with our e-librarian service ”MatES”, an e-Learning tool on fractions in mathematics. MatES allows students to enter...
Serge Linckels, Carole Dording, Christoph Meinel