An approach to defining actionability as a measure of interestingness of patterns is proposed. This approach is based on the concept of an action hierarchy which is defined as a t...
Personalized database systems give users answers tailored to their personal preferences. While numerous preference evaluation methods for databases have been proposed (e.g., skylin...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Mohamed E...
Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
Recent work in data integration has shown the importance of statistical information about the coverage and overlap of data sources for efficient query processing. Gathering and s...
In this paper, the issue of audio source separation from a single channel is addressed, i.e. the estimation of several source signals from a single observation of their mixture. Th...