In some applications such as filling in a customer information form on the web, some missing values may not be explicitly represented as such, but instead appear as potentially va...
Non-negative tensor factorization (NTF) is a relatively new technique that has been successfully used to extract significant characteristics from polyadic data, such as data in s...
The problem of privacy-preserving data mining has been studied extensively in recent years because of the increased amount of personal information which is available to corporation...
Assume that each object in a database has m grades, or scores, one for each of m attributes. For example, an object can have a color grade, that tells how red it is, and a shape g...
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...