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ICTIR
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
A New Measure of the Cluster Hypothesis
Abstract. We have found that the nearest neighbor (NN) test is an insufficient measure of the cluster hypothesis. The NN test is a local measure of the cluster hypothesis. Designer...
Mark D. Smucker, James Allan
CAISE
1993
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Similarity for Analogical Software Reuse: A Conceptual Modelling Approach
We present our approach to defining similarity between software artifacts and discuss its potential exploitation in software reuse by analogy. We first establish properties of si...
George Spanoudakis, Panos Constantopoulos
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Distance Estimation by Constructing The Virtual Ruler in Anisotropic Sensor Networks
Abstract—Distance estimation is fundamental for many functionalities of wireless sensor networks and has been studied intensively in recent years. A critical challenge in distanc...
Yun Wang, Kai Li, Jie Wu
SDM
2008
SIAM
158views Data Mining» more  SDM 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Similarity Measures for Categorical Data: A Comparative Evaluation
Measuring similarity or distance between two entities is a key step for several data mining and knowledge discovery tasks. The notion of similarity for continuous data is relative...
Shyam Boriah, Varun Chandola, Vipin Kumar
KDD
2006
ACM
213views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Learning sparse metrics via linear programming
Calculation of object similarity, for example through a distance function, is a common part of data mining and machine learning algorithms. This calculation is crucial for efficie...
Glenn Fung, Rómer Rosales