Metasearch engine, Comparison-shopping and Deep Web crawling applications need to extract search result records enwrapped in result pages returned from search engines in response ...
We present a family of algorithms to uncover tribes--groups of individuals who share unusual sequences of affiliations. While much work inferring community structure describes lar...
We consider a model in which background knowledge on a given domain of interest is available in terms of a Bayesian network, in addition to a large database. The mining problem is...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...
This paper is concerned with the construction of regression and classification trees that are more adapted to data mining applications than conventional trees. To this end, we pro...