The Enhanced Pay-Per-View (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media services associates with each continuous-media clip a display frequency that depends on the clip's popula...
Various problems in machine learning, databases, and statistics involve pairwise distances among a set of objects. It is often desirable for these distances to satisfy the propert...
: Schema matching is the task of finding semantic correspondences between elements of two schemas, which plays a key role in many database applications. In this paper, we cast the ...
Zhi Zhang, Pengfei Shi, Haoyang Che, Yong Sun, Jun...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
We consider the problem of finding a set of attribute values that give a high quality binary segmentation of a database. The quality of a segmentation is defined by an objective fu...