Recent advances in processing and networking capabilities of computers have led to an accumulation of immense amounts of multimedia data such as images. One of the largest reposit...
With the increasing popularity of recommender systems in commercial services, the quality of recommendations has increasingly become an important to study, much like the quality o...
Existing algorithms for mining association patterns often rely on the support-based pruning strategy to prune a combinatorial search space. However, this strategy is not effective ...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Completion procedures, originated from the seminal work of Knuth and Bendix, are wellknown as procedures for generating confluent rewrite systems, i.e. decision procedures for al ...