User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
A set of points shown on the map usually represents special sites like cities or towns in a country. If the map in the interactive geographical information system (GIS) is browsed ...
Abstract Technological advancements are constantly increasing the size and complexity of data resulting from microarray experiments. This fact has led biologists to ask complex que...
Nameeta Shah, Vladimir Filkov, Bernd Hamann, Kenne...
Fix an element x of a finite partially ordered set P on n elements. Then let hi(x) be the number of linear extensions of P in which x is in position i, counting from the bottom. T...
Abstract. Often, qualitative values have an ordering, such as (veryshort, short, medium-height, tall) or a hierarchical level, such as (TheWorld, Europe, Spain, Madrid), which are ...