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cs.DS2014
An Improved Approximation for -median, and Positive Correlation in Budgeted Optimization
Jarosław Byrka, Thomas Pensyl, Bartosz Rybicki +2
Dependent rounding is a useful technique for optimization problems with hard budget constraints. This framework naturally leads to \emph{negative correlation} properties. However,…
cs.SI2014★ 47 cited
'Beating the news' with EMBERS: Forecasting Civil Unrest using Open Source Indicators
Naren Ramakrishnan, Patrick Butler, Sathappan Muthiah +27
We describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of EMBERS, an automated, 24x7 continuous system for forecasting civil unrest across 10 countries of Latin America using open…