Spearman’s footrule and Kendall’s tau are two well established distances between rankings. They, however, fail to take into account concepts crucial to evaluating a result set...
This paper presents a finding and a technique on program behavior prediction. The finding is that surprisingly strong statistical correlations exist among the behaviors of diffe...
Yunlian Jiang, Eddy Z. Zhang, Kai Tian, Feng Mao, ...
The Local Outlier Factor (LOF) is a very powerful anomaly detection method available in machine learning and classification. The algorithm defines the notion of local outlier in...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
The complexity of physical and engineering systems, both in terms of the governing physical phenomena and the number of subprocesses involved, is mirrored in ever more complex mat...