This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
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Let R be a set of objects. An object o R is an outlier, if there exist less than k objects in R whose distances to o are at most r. The values of k, r, and the distance metric ar...
The objective of data reduction is to obtain a compact representation of a large data set to facilitate repeated use of non-redundant information with complex and slow learning alg...
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