Yahoo! Scores Big at KDD and VLDB
KDD
The 14th ACM SIGDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 08) will be held August 24 to 27 in Las Vegas, NV. Yahoo! earned the honor of 10 out of 95 total accepted research track papers this year (and 23 accepted industrial/government applications track papers). There were a total of 599 submissions and the choices were narrowed as a result of a rigid selection process.
KDD 08 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations covering all areas of data mining.
Yahoo! Accepted Papers:
Microscopic Evolution of Social Networks.
Jure Leskovec, Lars Backstrom, Ravi Kumar, Andrew Tomkins.
A Sequential Dual Method for Large Scale Multi-Class Linear SVMs.
S. Sathiya Keerthi, S. Sundararajan, Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Chih-Jen Lin.
Efficient Semi-streaming Algorithms for Local Triangle Counting in Massive Graphs.
Luca Becchetti, Paolo Boldi, Carlos Castillo, Aristides Gionis.
The Structure of Information Pathways in Social Communication Networks.
Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg, Duncan Watts.
A Semi-Supervised Approach to Rapid and Reliable Labeling of Large Data Sets.
Gyorgy J. Simon, Vipin Kumar, Zhi-Li Zhang, Francesco Bonchi.
Topical Query Decomposition.
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis.
De-duping URLs via Rewrite Rules.
Anirban Dasgupta, Ravi Kumar, Amit Sasturkar.
Generating Succinct Titles for Web URLs.
Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera.
Influence and Correlation in Social Networks.
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Ravi Kumar, Mohammad Mahdian.
VLDB
The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008) will be held August 24 to 28 in scenic Auckland, New Zealand. Yahoo!’s outstanding accomplishments include a total of 10 accepted papers. There were 46 accepted research papers on core database technology (Yahoo! claimed 3 of these), 49 accepted research papers on infrastructure for information systems (Yahoo! claimed 6), and 15 accepted industrial applications and experience papers (1 Yahoo! paper). 8 Yahoo! researchers serve on various program committees.
The conference will feature research talks, tutorials, demonstrations, and workshops. It will cover current issues in database and information systems research.
Yahoo! Accepted Papers:
Efficient Network-Aware Search in Collaborative Tagging Sites
Michael Benedikt, Sihem Amer Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan, Julia Stoyanovich
Efficient Top-K Processing over Query-Dependent Functions
Lin Guo, Sihem Amer Yahia, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Utkarsh Srivastava, Erik Vee
BayeStore: Managing Large, Uncertain Data Repositories with Probabilistic Graphical Models
Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Minos Garofalakis, Joseph Hellerstein
Scheduling Shared Scans of Large Data Files
Parag Agrawal, Daniel Kifer, Christopher Olston
Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph
Ioannis Antonellis, Hector Garcia-Molina, Chi-Chao Chang
WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications
Fan Yang, Chavdar Botev, Nitin Gupta, Elizabeth Churchill, George Levchenko, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Scalable Ranked Publish/Subscribe
Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Erik Vee, Minos Garofalakis, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Scalable Query Result Caching for Web Applications
Charles Garrod, Amit Manjhi, Bruce Maggs, Todd Mowry, Anthony Tomasic, Christopher Olston, Anastasia Ailamaki
Relaxation in Text Search using Taxonomies
Marcus Fontoura, Vanja Josifovski, Ravi Kumar, Christopher Olston, Sergei Vassilvitskii, Andrew Tomkins
PNUTS: Yahoo!'s hosted data serving platform
Brian Cooper, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Utkarsh Srivastava, Adam Silberstein, Phil Bohannon, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Nick Puz, Daniel Weaver, Ramana Yerneni
