A large number of database index structures have been proposed over the last two decades, and little consensus has emerged regarding their relative e ectiveness. In order to empir...
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Lisa Hellerstein, George Ko...
Agreement is an important concept in group interaction, both for computermediated and face-to-face groups. This paper presents a measure of disagreement, D, for groups facing limi...
In this paper, we introduce a novel objective function for the hierarchical clustering of data from distance matrices, a very relevant task in Bioinformatics. To test the robustnes...
Pritha Mahata, Wagner Costa, Carlos Cotta, Pablo M...
We investigate the problem of learning document classifiers in a multilingual setting, from collections where labels are only partially available. We address this problem in the ...
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not u...