We present a “black-box” approach to estimating query cardinality that has no knowledge of query execution plans and data distribution, yet provides accurate estimates. It doe...
This work focusses on bridging between folksonomies, which provide social but mainly flat and unstructured metadata on web resources, and semantic web ontologies, which instead des...
Abstract. Mahalanobis distance has already proved its strength in human skin detection using a set of skin values. We present this work that uses automatic skin detection after an ...
Abstract. Linear Discriminant (LD) techniques are typically used in pattern recognition tasks when there are many (n >> 104 ) datapoints in low-dimensional (d < 102 ) spac...
Although many real-world stochastic planning problems are more naturally formulated by hybrid models with both discrete and continuous variables, current state-of-the-art methods ...
Carlos Guestrin, Milos Hauskrecht, Branislav Kveto...