The data mining research community is increasingly addressing data quality issues, including problems of dirty data. Hand, Blunt, Kelly and Adams (2000) have identified high-level and low-level quality issues in data mining. Kim, Choi, Hong, Kim and Lee (2003) have compiled a useful, complete taxonomy of dirty data that provides a starting point for research in effective techniques and fast alg...

The epidemics of obesity and diabetes most apparent in recent years had their origins with Thomas Edison's development of distributed electricity in New York City in 1882. His original direct current (DC) generators suffered serious commutator brush arcing which is a major source of high-frequency voltage transients (dirty electricity). From the onset of the electrical grid, electrified populat...

We present a multi-lingual dictionary of dirty words. We have collected about 3,200 dirty words in several languages and built a database of these. The language with the most words in the database is English, though there are several hundred dirty words in for instance Japanese too. Words are classified into their general meaning, such as what part of the human anatomy they refer to. Words can ...

Results Overall, 1790 patients showed no post-operative complications and were assigned to the non-complication group, whereas 27 patients suffered from IAA postoperatively and were assigned to the IAA group. The incidence of IAA after LA was 1.4% and the only identified risk factor for IAA was dirty fluid collection in the peritoneal cavity observed during the operation. (P < 0.001) On logisti...

Abstract— We consider a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) Gaussian broadcast channel (BC), where the transmitter and receivers have multiple antennas. Since the MIMO broadcast channel is in general a non-degraded broadcast channel, its capacity region remains an unsolved problem. In this paper, we establish a duality between what is termed the “dirty paper” achievable region (the...

PURPOSE We contrast characteristics of respondents recruited using convenience strategies with those of respondents recruited by random digit dial (RDD) methods. We compare sample variances, means, and interrelationships among variables generated from the convenience and RDD samples. DESIGN AND METHODS Women aged 50 to 64 who work full time and provide care to a community-dwelling older perso...

This paper explores an analysis-aware data cleaning architecture for a large class of SPJ SQL queries. In particular, we propose QuERy, a novel framework for integrating entity resolution (ER) with query processing. The aim of QuERy is to correctly and efficiently answer complex queries issued on top of dirty data. The comprehensive empirical evaluation of the proposed solution demonstrates its...

Following an underlying theme in Communication is the duo of Dirty Paper Writing and Watermarking. In 1983 utilising some previous results by Gelfand, Pinsker, El Gamal and Heegard, Costa gave a method for acheiving capacity in the presence of a known interference. Costa, in his paper, doesn’t mention about any applications of his result, let alone Watermarking. In 1999 Cox et al recognised the...

Live VM (virtual machine) migration has become a research hotspot of virtualized cloud computing architecture. We present a novel migration algorithm which is called HMDC. Its main idea includes two parts. One is that it combines memory pulling copy with memory pushing copy to achieve hybrid memory copy. The other one is that it uses a delta compression mechanism during dirty pages copy, in whi...