An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
We present a framework and an application for semanticbased retrieval of images. Our approach adopts a two-level ontology structure in a subset of OWL-DL. In the core ontology onl...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco di...
We present the theory for heteroscedastic discriminant analysis (HDA), a model-based generalization of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) derived in the maximum-likelihood framewo...
We present a novel approach to learn a kernelbased regression function. It is based on the use of conical combinations of data-based parameterized kernels and on a new stochastic ...
Pierre Machart, Thomas Peel, Liva Ralaivola, Sandr...
With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...