Ordering and ranking items of different types are important tasks in various applications, such as query processing and scientific data mining. A total order for the items can be ...
Redescription mining is a newly introduced data mining problem that seeks to find subsets of data that afford multiple definitions. It can be viewed as a generalization of associa...
Indatawarehousingapplications,numerousOLAP queries involve the processing of holistic aggregators such as computing the "top n," median, quantiles, etc. In this paper, we...
Abstract. In dynamic environments like the Web, data sources may change not only their data but also their schemas, their semantics, and their query capabilities.When a mapping is ...
Estimating the cardinality (i.e. number of distinct elements) of an arbitrary set expression defined over multiple distributed streams is one of the most fundamental queries of in...