Spatial objects other than points and boxes can be stored in spatial indexes, but the techniques usually require the use of approximations that can be arbitrarily bad. This leads ...
Abstract. Modularity, the recently defined quality measure for clusterings, has attained instant popularity in the fields of social and natural sciences. We revisit the rationale b...
: The paper proposes a different approach to data modeling. Analogous to the rejection method, where the misclassifications are removed and manually evaluated, we focus here on dif...
Indexes are the key technology underpinning efficient text search. A range of algorithms have been developed for fast query evaluation and for index creation, but update algorithm...
A model is defined that predicts an agent's ascriptions of causality (and related notions of facilitation and justification) between two events in a chain, based on background...