Many real-world graphs have been shown to be scale-free— vertex degrees follow power law distributions, vertices tend to cluster, and the average length of all shortest paths is...
: The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) problem, i.e. finding all objects in a data set the k-nearest neighbors of which include a specified query object, has received increasing a...
We prove the following inequality: for every positive integer n and every collection X1, . . . , Xn of nonnegative independent random variables that each has expectation 1, the pr...
Abstract Yossi Matias Je rey Scott Vitter y Neal E. Young z In this paper we introduce the notion of approximate data structures, in which a small amount of error is tolerated in...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...