Abstract. The rational approach to pharmaceutical drug design begins with an investigation of the relationship between chemical structure and biological activity. Information gaine...
The rich dependency structure found in the columns of real-world relational databases can be exploited to great advantage, but can also cause query optimizers--which usually assum...
Ihab F. Ilyas, Volker Markl, Peter J. Haas, Paul B...
Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
Abstract. Data mining in large databases of complex objects from scientific, engineering or multimedia applications is getting more and more important. In many areas, complex dista...
Stefan Brecheisen, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfei...
We describe the architecture of a hypertext resource discovery system using a relational database. Such a system can answer questions that combine page contents, metadata, and hyp...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom