Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Online reviews provide consumers with valuable information that guides their decisions on a variety of fronts: from entertainment and shopping to medical services. Although the pr...
This paper introduces a new approach of approximating the selectivity of multimedia range queries. Estimating the selectivity of a range query is a pre-requisite to optimize a mul...
Abstract. Data mining algorithms such as the Apriori method for finding frequent sets in sparse binary data can be used for efficient computation of a large number of summaries fr...
Dominant sets are a new graph-theoretic concept that has proven to be relevant in partitional (flat) clustering as well as image segmentation problems. However, in many computer v...