In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Models for the processes by which ideas and influence propagate through a social network have been studied in a number of domains, including the diffusion of medical and technolog...
Most pattern discovery algorithms easily generate very large numbers of patterns, making the results impossible to understand and hard to use. Recently, the problem of instead sel...
Hannes Heikinheimo, Jilles Vreeken, Arno Siebes, H...
—Methods for learning decision rules are being successfully applied to many problem domains, especially where understanding and interpretation of the learned model is necessary. ...
—With the vast increase in collection and storage of data, the problem of data summarization is most critical for effective data management. Since much of this data is categorica...