We present a practical approach to generate stochastic anisotropic samples with Poisson-disk characteristic over a two-dimensional domain. In contrast to isotropic samples, we unde...
Louis Feng, Ingrid Hotz, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. ...
This paper deals with approximation algorithms for the prize collecting generalized Steiner forest problem, defined as follows. The input is an undirected graph G = (V, E), a colle...
We discover communities from social network data, and analyze the community evolution. These communities are inherent characteristics of human interaction in online social network...
Yu-Ru Lin, Yun Chi, Shenghuo Zhu, Hari Sundaram, B...
XML database functionality has been emerging in "XML-only" databases as well as in the major relational database products. Yet, there is no industry standard XML databas...
Text message stream is a newly emerging type of Web data which is produced in enormous quantities with the popularity of Instant Messaging and Internet Relay Chat. It is benefici...