In many clustering applications, the user has some vague notion of the number and membership of the desired clusters. However, it is difficult for the user to provide such knowled...
Anil K. Jain, Pavan Kumar Mallapragada, Martin H. ...
Many database applications have the emerging need to support fuzzy queries that ask for strings that are similar to a given string, such as “name similar to smith” and “tele...
We propose a novel iterative searching and refining prototype for tagged images. This prototype, named PivotBrowser, captures semantically similar tag sets in a structure called p...
Xiaoyan Li, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen, Xiaolong Zhang,...
The ability to flexibly compose confidence computation with the operations of relational algebra is an important feature of probabilistic database query languages. Computing confi...
Data-intensive applications are increasingly designed to execute on large computing clusters. Grouped aggregation is a core primitive of many distributed programming models, and i...