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...
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...
We use the concept of conditional mutual information (MI) to approach problems involving the selection of variables in the area of medical diagnosis. Computing MI requires estimate...
Background: There has been recent concern regarding the inability of predictive modeling approaches to generalize to new data. Some of the problems can be attributed to improper m...
Most pattern discovery algorithms easily generate very large numbers of patterns, making the results impossible to understand and hard to use. Recently, the problem of instead sel...
Hannes Heikinheimo, Jilles Vreeken, Arno Siebes, H...