In this workweproposea generalisation of the notion of associationrule in the contextof flat transactions to that of a compositeassociation rule in the context of a structured dir...
Many real-life scheduling, routing and location problems can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems whose goal is to find a linear layout of an input graph in such a ...
We divide a string into k segments, each with only one sort of symbols, so as to minimize the total number of exceptions. Motivations come from machine learning and data mining. F...
Events and stories can be characterized by a set of descriptive, collocated keywords. Intuitively, documents describing the same event will contain similar sets of keywords, and t...
We introduce a novel parameter called container flux, which is used to measure the information sharing capacity between two distinct nodes in a graph. Other useful information, bot...