For many ranking applications we would like to understand not only which items are top-ranked, but also why they are top-ranked. However, many of the best ranking algorithms (e.g....
Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Bert C. Huang, David L. Walt...
In this paper we study the k-means clustering problem. It is well-known that the general version of this problem is NP-hard. Numerous approximation algorithms have been proposed fo...
The Decomposition Storage Model (DSM) vertically partitions all attributes of a given relation. DSM has excellent I/O behavior when the number of attributes touched in the query i...
A fundamental task of data analysis is comprehending what distinguishes clusters found within the data. We present the problem of mining distinguishing sets which seeks to find s...
Abstract—Flash disks have been an emerging secondary storage media. In particular, there have been portable devices, multimedia players and laptop computers that are configured ...
Yu Li, Sai Tung On, Jianliang Xu, Byron Choi, Haib...