Ulf Brefeld
Prof. Dr.
- Informatics
- Business informatics
Research areas
- 2025
- Published
Interactive sequential generative models for team sports
Fassmeyer, D., Cordes, M. & Brefeld, U., 02.2025, In: Machine Learning. 114, 2, 15 p., 38.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Masked autoencoder for multiagent trajectories
Rudolph, Y. & Brefeld, U., 02.2025, In: Machine Learning. 114, 2, 18 p., 44.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Toward Learning Distributions of Distributions
Wohlstein, M. & Brefeld, U., 2025, In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 265, p. 269-275 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review
- 2024
- Submitted
Studying properties of water data using manifold-aware anomaly detectors
Paulsen, T. & Brefeld, U., 23.04.2024, (Submitted) Design of Cyber-Secure Water Plants. Mathur, A., Zhou, J. & Raman, G. (eds.). MDPI AG, (Water).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Masked Autoencoder Pretraining for Event Classification in Elite Soccer
Rudolph, Y. & Brefeld, U., 26.02.2024, Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 10th International Workshop, MLSA 2023, Revised Selected Papers. Brefeld, U., Davis, J., Van Haaren, J. & Zimmermann, A. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 24-35 12 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 2035).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2023
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Hands in Focus: Sign Language Recognition Via Top-Down Attention
Sarhan, N., Wilms, C., Closius, V., Brefeld, U. & Frintrop, S., 08.10.2023, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2023 - Proceedings: Proceedings. Piscataway: IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, p. 2555-2559 5 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Exploring the Poincaré Ellipsis
Fadel, S., Paulsen, T. & Brefeld, U., 09.2023, 20th Machine Learning on Graphs workshop.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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User Authentication via Multifaceted Mouse Movements and Outlier Exposure
Matthiesen, J. J., Hastedt, H. & Brefeld, U., 01.04.2023, Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XXI: 21st International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2023, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, April 12–14, 2023, Proceedings. Crémilleux, B., Hess, S. & Nijssen, S. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 300-313 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 13876 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Contextual movement models based on normalizing flows
Fadel, S., Mair, S., da Silva Torres, R. & Brefeld, U., 03.2023, In: AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis. 107, 1-2, p. 51-72 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about?
Quadros dos Reis, V., Rabello, M. E. R., Lima, A. C., Jardim, G. P. S., Fernandes, E. R. & Brefeld, U., 10.02.2023, In: Journal on Interactive Systems. 14, 1, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Convolutional Neural Networks
Rudolph, Y. & Brefeld, U., 01.01.2023, Sportinformatik: Modellbildung, Simulation, Datenanalyse und Visualisierung von sportbezogenen Daten. Memmert, D. (ed.). Berlin: Springer Spektrum, p. 207-215 9 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
- 2022
- Published
Uma Caracterização das Polı́ticas de Privacidade Utilizadas em Aplicativos no Brasil
Jardim, G. P. S., Rabello, M. E. R., Lima, A. C., Brefeld, U. & Quadros dos Reis, V., 05.08.2022, Anais do III Workshop sobre as Implicações da Computação na Sociedade (WICS). Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC), p. 13-25 13 p. (WORKSHOP SOBRE AS IMPLICAÇÕES DA COMPUTAÇÃO NA SOCIEDADE (WICS); no. 3/2022).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Who can receive the pass? A computational model for quantifying availability in soccer
Dick, U., Link, D. & Brefeld, U., 01.05.2022, In: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 36, 3, p. 987-1014 28 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Action rate models for predicting actions in soccer
Dick, U. & Brefeld, U., 02.03.2022, In: AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis. 107, 1-2, p. 29-49 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Modeling Conditional Dependencies in Multiagent Trajectories
Rudolph, Y. & Brefeld, U., 2022, In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 151, p. 10518-10533 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review
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Semi-Supervised Generative Models for Multi-Agent Trajectories
Brefeld, U., Fassmeyer, D. & Fassmeyer, P., 2022, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022). Koyejo, S., Mohamed, S., Agarwal, A., Belgrave, D., Cho, K. & Oh, A. (eds.). Red Hook: Curran Associates, Vol. 48. p. 37267-37281 15 p. (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems; vol. 35).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2021
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The origins of goals in the German Bundesliga
Anzer, G., Bauer, P. & Brefeld, U., 17.11.2021, In: Journal of Sports Sciences. 39, 22, p. 2525-2544 20 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Toward Automatically Labeling Situations in Soccer
Fassmeyer, D., Anzer, G., Bauer, P. & Brefeld, U., 03.11.2021, In: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 3, 15 p., 725431.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Principled Interpolation in Normalizing Flows
Fadel, S., Mair, S., da Silva Torres, R. & Brefeld, U., 09.2021, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2021, Bilbao, Spain, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II. Oliver, N., Pérez-Cruz, F., Kramer, S., Read, J. & Lozano, J. A. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature AG, p. 116-131 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12976 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Space and Control in Soccer
Martens, F., Dick, U. & Brefeld, U., 16.07.2021, In: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living . 3, 13 p., 676179.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Rating Player Actions in Soccer
Dick, U., Tavakol, M. & Brefeld, U., 15.07.2021, In: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. 3, 14 p., 682986.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Joint optimization of an autoencoder for clustering and embedding
Boubekki, A., Kampffmeyer, M., Brefeld, U. & Jenssen, R., 01.07.2021, In: Machine Learning. 110, 7, p. 1901-1937 37 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Simultaneous Constrained Adaptive Item Selection for Group-Based Testing
Bengs, D., Kroehne, U. & Brefeld, U., 01.06.2021, In: Journal of Educational Measurement. 58, 2, p. 236-261 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Evaluating one-shot tournament predictions
Ekstrom, C. T., Van Eetvelde, H., Ley, C. & Brefeld, U., 05.04.2021, In: Journal of Sports Analytics. 7, 1, p. 37-46 10 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2020
- Published
Analysing Positional Data
Brefeld, U., Mair, S. & Lasek, J., 01.10.2020, Science Meets Sports: When Statistics Are More Than Numbers. Ley, C. & Dominicy, Y. (eds.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 81-94 13 p. (Physical Sciences).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Assessing User Behavior by Mouse Movements
Matthiesen, J. J. & Brefeld, U., 2020, HCI International 2020 - Posters - : 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Proceedings. Stephanidis, C. & Antona, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 68-75 8 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1224 CCIS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Coresets for Archetypal Analysis
Mair, S. & Brefeld, U., 2020, 32rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019): Vancouver, Canada, 8-14 December 2019. Wallach, H. & Larochelle, H. (eds.). Red Hook: Curran Associates, Vol. 10. p. 7215-7223 9 p. (Advances in neural information processing systems; vol. 32).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Graph Conditional Variational Models: Too Complex for Multiagent Trajectories?
Rudolph, Y., Brefeld, U. & Dick, U., 2020, In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 137, p. 136-147 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Conference article in journal › Research › peer-review
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Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 7th International Workshop, MLSA 2020, Co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020, Ghent, Belgium, September 14–18, 2020, Proceedings
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Davis, J. (Editor), van Haaren, J. (Editor) & Zimmermann, A. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. 146 p. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 1324)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part I
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 766 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part II
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 732 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2019, Würzburg, Germany, September 16–20, 2019, Proceedings, Part III
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Fromont, E. (Editor), Hotho, A. (Editor), Knobbe, A. (Editor), Maathuis, M. (Editor) & Robardet, C. (Editor), 2020, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 804 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 11906)(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence; vol. 11906)Research output: Books and anthologies › Conference proceedings › Research
- 2019
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Zur empirischen Beforschung des mBooks Belgien: Die Chancen eines Methodenmix
Schreiber, W., Wagner, W., Trautwein, U. & Brefeld, U., 10.2019, Das Geschichtsschulbuch: Lehren – Lernen – Forschen . Kühberger, C., Bernhard, R. & Bramann, C. (eds.). Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 57-80 24 p. (Salzburger Beiträge zur Lehrer/innen/bildung; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Personalized Transaction Kernels for Recommendation Using MCTS
Tavakol, M., Joppen, T., Brefeld, U. & Fürnkranz, J., 01.09.2019, KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence - 42nd German Conference on AI, Proceedings. Benzmüller, C. & Stuckenschmidt, H. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer, p. 338-352 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11793 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Predicting the Difficulty of Exercise Items for Dynamic Difficulty Adaptation in Adaptive Language Tutoring
Pandarova, I., Schmidt, T., Hartig, J., Boubekki, A., Jones, R. D. & Brefeld, U., 15.08.2019, In: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 29, 3, p. 342-367 26 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics: 5th International Workshop, MLSA 2018, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10, 2018, Proceedings
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Davis, J. (Editor), Van Haaren, J. (Editor) & Zimmermann, A. (Editor), 05.04.2019, Springer Nature AG. 179 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11330 LNAI)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Learning to Rate Player Positioning in Soccer
Dick, U. & Brefeld, U., 01.03.2019, In: Big Data. 7, 1, p. 71-82 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Reformstudie Belgien: eine Effektstudie zur Einführung von kompetenzorientiertem Rahmenplan und mBook
Schreiber, W., Trautwein, U., Wagner, W. & Brefeld, U., 01.02.2019, Geschichtsdidaktischer Zwischenhalt: Beiträge aus der Tagung "Kompetent machen für ein Leben in, mit und durch Geschichte" in Eichstätt vom November 2017. Schreiber, W., Ziegler, B. & Kühberger, C. (eds.). 1. ed. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, p. 161-174 14 p. 2Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Frame-based Optimal Design
Mair, S., Rudolph, Y., Closius, V. & Brefeld, U., 23.01.2019, Machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018 : proceedings. Berlingerio, M., Bonchi, F., Gärtner, T., Hurley, N. & Ifrim, G. (eds.). Cham: Springer Nature AG, Vol. 2. p. 447-463 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11052 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Probabilistic movement models and zones of control
Brefeld, U., Lasek, J. & Mair, S., 15.01.2019, In: Machine Learning. 108, 1, p. 127-147 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Foreword to applied data science, demo, and nectar tracks
Brefeld, U., Curry, E., Daly, E., Macnamee, B., Marascu, A. & Pinelli, F., 01.01.2019, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018 : proceedings. Brefeld, U., Curry, E., Daly, E., Macnamee, B., Marascu, A. & Pinelli, F. (eds.). Cham: Springer, Vol. 3. p. V-VI 2 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11053).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Other › Research
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Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Dublin, Ireland, September 10-14, 2018, Proceedings - Part III
Brefeld, U. (Editor), Curry , E. (Editor), Daly, E. (Editor), MacNamee, B. (Editor), Marascu, A. (Editor), Pinelli , F. (Editor), Berlingerio, M. (Editor) & Hurley, N. (Editor), 2019, Cham: Springer. 706 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11054 LNAI)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- 2018
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MDP-based itinerary recommendation using geo-tagged social media
Gaonkar, R., Tavakol, M. & Brefeld, U., 25.10.2018, Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVII - 17th International Symposium, IDA 2018, Proceedings. Duivesteijn, W., Siebes, A. & Ukkonen, A. (eds.). Basel: Springer Nature AG, p. 111-123 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); no. 11191).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Adaptive Item Selection Under Matroid Constraints
Bengs, D., Brefeld, U. & Kröhne, U., 07.08.2018, In: Journal of Computerized Adaptive Testing. 6, 2, p. 15-36 22 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Distributed robust Gaussian Process regression
Mair, S. & Brefeld, U., 01.05.2018, In: Knowledge and Information Systems. 55, 2, p. 415-435 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Infinite Mixtures of Markov Chains
Reubold, J., Boubekki, A., Strufe, T. & Brefeld, U., 2018, New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns: 6th International Workshop, NFMCP 2017 : held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017 : revised selected papers. Appice, A., Loglisci, C., Manco, G. & Masciari, E. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 167-181 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10785 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2017
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A Unified Contextual Bandit Framework for Long- and Short-Term Recommendations
Tavakol, M. & Brefeld, U., 30.12.2017, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2017 Skopje, Macedonia, September 18 – 22, 2017; Proceedings, Part II. Ceci, M., Hollmen, J., Todorovski, L., Vens, C. & Dzeroski, S. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 2. p. 269-284 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10535 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Guest editorial: Special issue on sports analytics
Brefeld, U. & Zimmermann, A., 01.11.2017, In: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 31, 6, p. 1577-1579 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
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Frame-based Data Factorizations
Mair, S., Boubekki, A. & Brefeld, U., 25.07.2017, 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2017. Precup, D. & Teh, Y. W. (eds.). Red Hook: Curran Associates, p. 2305-2313 9 p. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 70).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Propagating Maximum Capacities for Recommendation
Boubekki, A., Brefeld, U., Lucchesi, C. L. & Stille, W., 2017, KI 2017: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 40th Annual German Conference on AI, Dortmund, Germany, September 25-29, 2017 : proceedings. Cham, Schweiz: Springer, p. 72-84 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 10505 LNAI).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review