For decades, the serialization constraints imposed by true data dependences have been regarded as an absolute limit--the dataflow limit--on the parallel execution of serial progra...
The amount of data collected and stored in databases is growing considerably for almost all areas of human activity. Processing this amount of data is very expensive, both humanly...
It is well known that different types of social ties have essentially different influence between people. However, users in online social networks rarely categorize their contact...
Machine learning approaches are frequently used to solve name entity (NE) recognition (NER). In this paper we propose a hybrid method that uses maximum entropy (ME) as the underly...
Clustering is one of the most widely used statistical tools for data analysis. Among all existing clustering techniques, k-means is a very popular method because of its ease of pr...