Joins are among the most frequently executed operations. Several fast join algorithms have been developed and extensively studied; these can be categorized as sort-merge, hash-bas...
Color quantization is an important operation with many applications in graphics and image processing. Most quantization methods are essentially based on data clustering algorithms...
As the size and popularity of computer clusters go on growing, fault tolerance is becoming a crucial factor to ensure high performance and reliability for applications. To provide...
Antonio S. Martins, Ronaldo Augusto Lara Gon&ccedi...
With the vast amount of potential relevant documents on the Web, a key question for a retrieval system is how to achieve a high accuracy retrieval under current Web setting. The w...
We empirically evaluate the performance of various reinforcement learning methods in applications to sequential targeted marketing. In particular, we propose and evaluate a progre...
Naoki Abe, Edwin P. D. Pednault, Haixun Wang, Bian...