Clustering is a central unsupervised learning task with a wide variety of applications. Not surprisingly, there exist many clustering algorithms. However, unlike classification ta...
Two different ways of defining ad-hoc polymorphic operations commonly occur in programming languages. With the first form polymorphic operations are defined inductively on the...
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...
While social interactions are critical to understanding consumer behavior, the relationship between social and commerce networks has not been explored on a large scale. We analyze...
It has been observed that there are a variety of situations in which the most popular hybrid simulation methods can fail to properly detect the occurrence of discrete events. In th...