Full hierarchical dependencies (FHDs) constitute a large class of relational dependencies. A relation exhibits an FHD precisely when it can be decomposed into at least two of its ...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
We consider a model in which background knowledge on a given domain of interest is available in terms of a Bayesian network, in addition to a large database. The mining problem is...
Knowledge discovery allows considerable insight into data. This brings with it the inherent risk that what is inferred may be private or ethically sensitive. The process of genera...
Resource discovery in a Grid environment is a critical problem, as a typical Grid system includes a very large number of resources, which must be readily identified and accessed ...