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ECAL
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis. Inspired by examples from the anim...
SEBD
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Preference queries aim to retrieve from large databases those objects that better match user’s requirements. Approaches proposed so far in the DB field for specifying preference...
PVLDB
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of p...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Most data-mining techniques seek a single model that optimizes an objective function with respect to the data. In many real-world applications several models will equally optimize...