Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
How can we efficiently find a clustering, i.e. a concise description of the cluster structure, of a given data set which contains an unknown number of clusters of different shape ...
The problem of simultaneously clustering columns and rows (coclustering) arises in important applications, such as text data mining, microarray analysis, and recommendation system...
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...