Optimizing queries that involve operations on spatial data requires estimating the selectivity and cost of these operations. In this paper, we focus on estimating the cost of spat...
Data integrated from multiple sources may contain inconsistencies that violate integrity constraints. The constraint repair problem attempts to find "low cost" changes t...
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, Raje...
Predicting prospective healthcare costs is of increasing importance. Genetic search is used to discover attribute sets and associated posterior probability classifiers that predi...
Christopher R. Stephens, Henri Waelbroeck, S. Tall...
1 In this paper we characterize and model the cost of rework in a Component Factory (CF) organization. A CF is responsible for developing and packaging reusable software components...
Victor R. Basili, Steven E. Condon, Khaled El Emam...
This paper investigates how the splitting criteria and pruning methods of decision tree learning algorithms are influenced by misclassification costs or changes to the class distr...