Inference problems in graphical models can be represented as a constrained optimization of a free energy function. It is known that when the Bethe free energy is used, the fixedpo...
We introduce a new type of graphical model called a `cumulative distribution network' (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. ...
A binary constraint network is tree convex if we can construct a tree for the domain of the variables so that for any constraint, no matter what value one variable takes, all the ...
Over time, many people accumulate extensive email repositories that contain detailed information about their personal communication patterns and relationships. We present three vi...
Association rule mining techniques are used to search attribute-value pairs that occur frequently together in a data set. Ordinal association rules are a particular type of associa...
Alina Campan, Gabriela Serban, Traian Marius Truta...