Abstract. An object o of a database D is called a hot item, if there is a sufficiently large population of other objects in D that are similar to o. In other words, hot items are ...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
We present a functional model for the analysis of large volumes of detailed transactional data, accumulated over time. In our model, the data schema is an acyclic graph with a sing...
Ranking is a fundamental operation in data analysis and decision support, and plays an even more crucial role if the dataset being explored exhibits uncertainty. This has led to m...
Selecting which algorithms should be used by a mobile robot computer vision system is a decision that is usually made a priori by the system developer, based on past experience and...
Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, Arnau Ramisa, Ramon L&oacu...
An optimization query asks for one or more data objects that maximize or minimize some function over the data set. We propose a general class of queries, model-based optimization ...