This paper introduces the concept of an SOA edge server and a set of complementary design patterns designed to optimize performance, improve manageability and enable customers to ...
—Traditional clustering algorithms identify just a single clustering of the data. Today’s complex data, however, allow multiple interpretations leading to several valid groupin...
s In data mining, we emphasize the need for learning from huge, incomplete and imperfect data sets (Fayyad et al. 1996, Frawley et al. 1991, Piatetsky-Shapiro and Frawley, 1991). T...
Consider multiple users searching for a hotel room, based on size, cost, distance to the beach, etc. Users may have variable preferences expressed by different weights on the attri...
Existing federated database systems (FDBS) provide uniform access to multiple heterogeneous DBS, but do not enable objects to move across the DBS while retaining global identity. ...