The main task in decision tree construction algorithms is to find the "best partition" of the set of objects. In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimal binary ...
Evidence theory has been widely applied to uncertain reasoning. However, the evidence space and hypothesis space are each defined as a fixed set. If the theory is applied to solve...
Qingxiang Wu, Xi Huang, David A. Bell, Guilin Qi, ...
Recognizing the alternative ways people use to reference an entity, is important for many Web applications that query structured data. In such applications, there is often a mismat...
If presented with inaccurate statistics, even the most sophisticated query optimizers make mistakes. They may wrongly estimate the output cardinality of a certain operation and th...
Peter J. Haas, Mokhtar Kandil, Alberto Lerner, Vol...
Local (first order) sentences, introduced by Ressayre, enjoy very nice decidability properties, following from some stretching theorems stating some remarkable links between the ...