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A Fair Assignment Algorithm For Multiple Preference Queries, Leong Hou U, Nikos Mamoulis, Kyriakos Mouratidis Dec 2010

A Fair Assignment Algorithm For Multiple Preference Queries, Leong Hou U, Nikos Mamoulis, Kyriakos Mouratidis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Consider an internship assignment system, where at the end of each academic year, interested university students search and apply for available positions, based on their preferences (e.g., nature of the job, salary, office location, etc). In a variety of facility, task or position assignment contexts, users have personal preferences expressed by different weights on the attributes of the searched objects. Although individual preference queries can be evaluated by selecting the object in the database with the highest aggregate score, in the case of multiple simultaneous requests, a single object cannot be assigned to more than one users. The challenge is …


Capacity Constrained Assignment In Spatial Databases, Hou U Leong, Man Lung Yiu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis Dec 2010

Capacity Constrained Assignment In Spatial Databases, Hou U Leong, Man Lung Yiu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Given a point set P of customers (e.g., WiFi receivers) and a point set Q of service providers (e.g., wireless access points), where each q 2 Q has a capacity q.k, the capacity constrained assignment (CCA) is a matching M Q × P such that (i) each point q 2 Q (p 2 P) appears at most k times (at most nce) in M, (ii) the size of M is maximized (i.e., it comprises min{|P|,P q2Q q.k} pairs), and (iii) the total assignment cost (i.e., the sum of Euclidean distances within all pairs) is minimized. Thus, the CCA problem is …


Detecting Product Review Spammers Using Rating Behaviors, Ee Peng Lim, Viet-An Nguyen, Nitin Jindal, Bing Liu, Hady Wirawan Lauw Oct 2010

Detecting Product Review Spammers Using Rating Behaviors, Ee Peng Lim, Viet-An Nguyen, Nitin Jindal, Bing Liu, Hady Wirawan Lauw

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper aims to detect users generating spam reviews or review spammers. We identify several characteristic be- haviors of review spammers and model these behaviors so as to detect the spammers. In particular, we seek to model the following behaviors. First, spammers may target specific products or product groups in order to maximize their im- pact. Second, they tend to deviate from the other reviewers in their ratings of products. We propose scoring methods to measure the degree of spam for each reviewer and apply them on an Amazon review dataset. We then select a sub- set of highly suspicious …