In content-based retrieval, relevance feedback (RF) is a noticeable method for reducing the “semantic gap” between the low-level features describing the content and the usually...
Michel Crucianu, Daniel Estevez, Vincent Oria, Jea...
Combinatorial auctions, where agents can bid on bundles of items (resources, tasks, etc.), are desirable because the agents can express complementarity and substitutability among ...
We address the problem of building an index for a set D of n strings, where each string location is a subset of some finite integer alphabet of size , so that we can answer effici...
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Equi-depth histograms represent a fundamental synopsis widely used in both database and data stream applications, as they provide the cornerstone of many techniques such as query ...