We introduce the notion of a Canonical Tester for a class of properties on distributions, that is, a tester strong and general enough that “a distribution property in the class ...
This paper studies a virus inoculation game on social networks. A framework is presented which allows the measuring of the windfall of friendship, i.e., how much players benefit i...
Dominic Meier, Yvonne Anne Oswald, Stefan Schmid, ...
Recurring events are short temporal patterns that consist of multiple instances in the target database. Without any a priori knowledge of the recurring events, in terms of their le...
In this paper, we study the possibility of designing non-trivial random CSP models by exploiting the intrinsic connection between structures and typical-case hardness. We show tha...
The creation of a complex web site is a thorny problem in user interface design. In this paper we explore the notion of adaptive web sites: sites that semi-automatically improve t...