A plethora of data sources contain data entities that could be ordered according to a variety of attributes associated with the entities. Such orderings result effectively in a ra...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
This paper studies a new query on uncertain data, called k-selection query. Given an uncertain dataset of N objects, where each object is associated with a preference score and a p...
Xingjie Liu, Mao Ye, Jianliang Xu, Yuan Tian, Wang...
Applications such as audio fingerprinting require search in high dimensions: find an item in a database that is similar to a query. An important property of this search task is t...
Jonathan Goldstein, John C. Platt, Christopher J. ...
Several business applications such as marketing basket analysis, clickstream analysis, fraud detection and churning migration analysis demand gradient data analysis. By employing g...