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GIS
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Using fuzzy clustering methods for delineating urban housing submarkets
This study investigates whether a fuzzy clustering method is of any practical value in delineating urban housing submarkets relative to clustering methods based on classic (or cri...
Sungsoon Hwang, Jean-Claude Thill
ECML
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Fitting the Smallest Enclosing Bregman Ball
Finding a point which minimizes the maximal distortion with respect to a dataset is an important estimation problem that has recently received growing attentions in machine learnin...
Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen
KDD
2006
ACM
157views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Using structure indices for efficient approximation of network properties
Statistics on networks have become vital to the study of relational data drawn from areas such as bibliometrics, fraud detection, bioinformatics, and the Internet. Calculating man...
Matthew J. Rattigan, Marc Maier, David Jensen
VLDB
2005
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of Predicates
Cost-based query optimizers need to estimate the selectivity of conjunctive predicates when comparing alternative query execution plans. To this end, advanced optimizers use multi...
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam M...
KDD
2006
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 9 months ago
Beyond classification and ranking: constrained optimization of the ROI
Classification has been commonly used in many data mining projects in the financial service industry. For instance, to predict collectability of accounts receivable, a binary clas...
Lian Yan, Patrick Baldasare