Classification based on k-nearest neighbors (kNN classification) is one of the most widely used classification methods. The number k of nearest neighbors used for achieving a high ...
Background: The MEDLINE database contains over 12 million references to scientific literature, ut 3/4 of recent articles including an abstract of the publication. Retrieval of ent...
Given a universe U of n elements and a weighted collection S of m subsets of U, the universal set cover problem is to a-priori map each element u ∈ U to a set S(u) ∈ S contain...
Searching for similar objects in metric-space databases can be efficiently solved by using index data structures. A number of alternative sequential indexes have been proposed in...
—We present a new access method, called the path dictionary index (PDI) method, for supporting nested queries on object-oriented databases. PDI supports object traversal and asso...