Query optimization in data integration requires source coverage and overlap statistics. Gathering and storing the required statistics presents many challenges, not the least of wh...
Index is an important element in databases, and the existence of index is unavoidable. When an index has been built on a particular attribute, database operations (e.g. selection,...
Data collected in many applications have a form of sequences of events. One of the popular data mining problems is discovery of frequently occurring episodes in such sequences. Eff...
Classical retrieval models support content-oriented searching for documents using a set of words as data model. However, in hypertext and database applications we want to consider...
We introduce the problem of mining association rules in large relational tables containing both quantitative and categorical attributes. An example of such an association might be...