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Compressing social networks can substantially facilitate mining and advanced analysis of large social networks. Preferably, social networks should be compressed in a way that they...
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A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...