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Technical Perspective: A Rare Glimpse of Tracking Fake Reviews
"Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews," by Sherry He et al., represents a breakthrough in our empirical understanding of fake reviews on Amazon.
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Leveraging Social Media to Buy Fake Reviews
We study the market for fake product reviews on Amazon.com.
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Technical Perspective: Can We Uncover Private Backbone Infrastructures?
In "A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers," Salamatian et al. assemble techniques from the two broad strategies developed...
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A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers
We present a new empirical approach for elucidating connectivity in privately owned and operated backbone networks.
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Technical Perspective: Opening the Door to SSD Algorithmics
The authors of "Offline and Online Algorithms for SSD Management" propose a more accurate theoretical model of flash-based SSDs that views each page as containing...
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Offline and Online Algorithms for SSD Management
We explore the problem of reducing high internal overhead of flash media which is referred to as write amplification from an algorithmic perspective, considering...
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Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value...
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FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store
FoundationDB, an open-source transactional key-value store, is one of the first systems to combine the flexibility and scalability of NoSQL architectures with the...
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Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification...
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Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long...
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Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness
We propose several efficient data structures for the exact and approximate variants of the fair near neighbor problem.
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Technical Perspective: Can Data Structures Treat Us Fairly?
In "Sampling Near Neighbors in Search for Fairness," Aumüller et al. investigate a basic problem in similarity search called near neighbor in the context of fair...
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Technical Perspective: Visualization Search: From Sketching to Natural Language
"Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics," by Tarique Siddiqui et al., provides a general abstraction, along with advanced interfaces, focusing on...
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Expressive Querying for Accelerating Visual Analytics
In this work, we introduce the problem of visualization search and highlight two underlying challenges of search enumeration and visualization matching.
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Technical Perspective: Evaluating Sampled Metrics Is Challenging
"On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation," by Walid Krichene and Steffen Rendle, exposes a crucial aspect for the evaluation of algorithms and tools: the impact...
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On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing...
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Technical Perspective: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection
In "FANG," the authors focus on a strategy of automatically detecting disinformation campaigns on online media with a new graph-based, contextual technique for...
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FANG: Leveraging Social Context for Fake News Detection Using Graph Representation
We propose Factual News Graph (FANG), a novel graphical social context representation and learning framework for fake news detection.
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Technical Perspective: Exploring Cognitive Bias 'In the Wild'
The authors of "Cognitive Biases in Software Development" rightly highlight the need for situated studies that examine cognitive bias 'in the wild' during software...
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