—We introduce a novel metric space search data structure called EGNAT, which is fully dynamic and designed for secondary memory. The EGNAT is based on Brin’s GNAT static index,...
We consider a new data mining problem of detecting the members of a rare class of data, the needles, that have been hidden in a set of records, the haystack. Besides the haystack, ...
Ordered lists of objects are widely used as representational forms. Such ordered objects include Web search results and best-seller lists. Techniques for processing such ordinal d...
In many clustering applications for bioinformatics, only part of the data clusters into one or more groups while the rest needs to be pruned. For such situations, we present Hiera...
Covariances from categorical variables are defined using a regular simplex expression for categories. The method follows the variance definition by Gini, and it gives the covaria...