Most software engineering techniques that deal with software products customization are based on anticipation: The software designer has to foresee, somehow, the future needs for ...
Popular Internet applications deploy a multi-tier architecture, with each tier provisioning a certain functionality to its preceding tier. In this paper, we address the challengin...
We propose a number of techniques for obtaining a global ranking from data that may be incomplete and imbalanced — characteristics that are almost universal to modern datasets co...
—Linguistic summarization (LS) is a data mining or knowledge discovery approach to extract patterns from databases. Many authors have used this technique to generate summaries li...
—We consider approaches for similarity search in correlated, high-dimensional data-sets, which are derived within a clustering framework. We note that indexing by “vector appro...