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KDD
2008
ACM
174views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
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Automatic identification of quasi-experimental designs for discovering causal knowledge
Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...
KDD
2007
ACM
182views Data Mining» more  KDD 2007»
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A fast algorithm for finding frequent episodes in event streams
Frequent episode discovery is a popular framework for mining data available as a long sequence of events. An episode is essentially a short ordered sequence of event types and the...
Srivatsan Laxman, P. S. Sastry, K. P. Unnikrishnan
STOC
2004
ACM
94views Algorithms» more  STOC 2004»
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Sublinear algorithms for testing monotone and unimodal distributions
The complexity of testing properties of monotone and unimodal distributions, when given access only to samples of the distribution, is investigated. Two kinds of sublineartime alg...
Tugkan Batu, Ravi Kumar, Ronitt Rubinfeld
STOC
2003
ACM
124views Algorithms» more  STOC 2003»
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Extractors: optimal up to constant factors
This paper provides the first explicit construction of extractors which are simultaneously optimal up to constant factors in both seed length and output length. More precisely, fo...
Chi-Jen Lu, Omer Reingold, Salil P. Vadhan, Avi Wi...
VLDB
2004
ACM
161views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
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Supporting top-k join queries in relational databases
Ranking queries produce results that are ordered on some computed score. Typically, these queries involve joins, where users are usually interested only in the top-k join results....
Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
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