It is well known that many hard tasks considered in machine learning and data mining can be solved in an rather simple and robust way with an instance- and distance-based approach....
Adaptable similarity queries based on quadratic form distance functions are widely popular in data mining applications, particularly for domains such as multimedia, CAD, molecular ...
The notion of time granularity comes into play in a variety of problems involving time representation and management in database applications, including temporal database design, t...
Term weighting strongly influences the performance of text mining and information retrieval approaches. Usually term weights are determined through statistical estimates based on s...
Generalized association rules are rules that contain some background knowledge, therefore, giving a more general view of the domain. This knowledge is codified by a taxonomy set ...
Veronica Oliveira de Carvalho, Solange Oliveira Re...