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ICTAI
2009
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
A Generalized Cyclic-Clustering Approach for Solving Structured CSPs
We propose a new method for solving structured CSPs which generalizes and improves the Cyclic-Clustering approach [4]. First, the cutset and the tree-decomposition of the constrai...
Cédric Pinto, Cyril Terrioux
AAAI
1998
13 years 10 months ago
OKBC: A Programmatic Foundation for Knowledge Base Interoperability
The technology for building large knowledge bases (KBs) is yet to witness a breakthrough so that a KB can be constructed by the assembly of prefabricated knowledge components. Kno...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, P...
UAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
2751views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
15 years 8 months ago
Skyline Query Processing for Incomplete Data
Recently, there has been much interest in processing skyline queries for various applications that include decision making, personalized services, and search pruning. Skyline queri...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed E. Khalefa, Mohamed ...
ICDE
2006
IEEE
138views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 10 months ago
SUBSKY: Efficient Computation of Skylines in Subspaces
Given a set of multi-dimensional points, the skyline contains the best points according to any preference function that is monotone on all axes. In practice, applications that req...
Yufei Tao, Xiaokui Xiao, Jian Pei