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KDD
2006
ACM
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Is there a grand challenge or X-prize for data mining?
This panel will discuss possible exciting and motivating Grand Challenge problems for Data Mining, focusing on bioinformatics, multimedia mining, link mining, text mining, and web...
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Robert Grossman, Chaban...
KDD
2004
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Fast discovery of connection subgraphs
We define a connection subgraph as a small subgraph of a large graph that best captures the relationship between two nodes. The primary motivation for this work is to provide a pa...
Christos Faloutsos, Kevin S. McCurley, Andrew Tomk...
KDD
2002
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Customer lifetime value modeling and its use for customer retention planning
We present and discuss the important business problem of estimating the effect of retention efforts on the Lifetime Value of a customer in the Telecommunications industry. We disc...
Saharon Rosset, Einat Neumann, Uri Eick, Nurit Vat...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Results from deploying a participation incentive mechanism within the enterprise
Success and sustainability of social networking sites is highly dependent on user participation. To encourage contribution to an opt-in social networking site designed for employe...
Rosta Farzan, Joan Morris DiMicco, David R. Millen...
CHI
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Exploring evaluation methods for ambient information systems
In this paper, we begin by laying out our motivation for exploring methods of evaluating Ambient Information Systems, with a strong push toward in-situ studies. Next, we describe ...
William R. Hazlewood, Kay Connelly, Kevin Makice, ...