This paper introduces RankSQL, a system that provides a systematic and principled framework to support efficient evaluations of ranking (top-k) queries in relational database syst...
Chengkai Li, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Ihab F. Ilyas...
An approximate rank revealing factorization problem with structure constraints on the normalized factors is considered. Examples of structure, motivated by an application in micro...
Abstract. Most of the research in data mining has been focused on developing novel algorithms for specific data mining tasks. However, finding the theoretical foundations of data...
Background: A microarray study may select different differentially expressed gene sets because of different selection criteria. For example, the fold-change and p-value are two co...
James J. Chen, Chen-An Tsai, ShengLi Tzeng, Chun-H...
Abstract. In many cases, users may want to consider incomplete answers to their queries. Often, however, there is an overwhelming number of such answers, even if subsumed answers a...