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EGC
2009
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
A Bayes Evaluation Criterion for Decision Trees
We present a new evaluation criterion for the induction of decision trees. We exploit a parameter-free Bayesian approach and propose an analytic formula for the evaluation of the p...
Nicolas Voisine, Marc Boullé, Carine Hue
EDBT
2004
ACM
147views Database» more  EDBT 2004»
16 years 4 months ago
Projection Pushing Revisited
The join operation, which combines tuples from multiple relations, is the most fundamental and, typically, the most expensive operation in database queries. The standard approach t...
Benjamin J. McMahan, Guoqiang Pan, Patrick Porter,...
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ICPR
2004
IEEE
16 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Combination of Multiple Modalities to Detect Interest
This paper describes a new approach to combine multiple modalities and applies it to the problem of affect recognition. The problem is posed as a combination of classifiers in a p...
Ashish Kapoor, Rosalind W. Picard, Yuri Ivanov
ECIR
2007
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Query Hardness Estimation Using Jensen-Shannon Divergence Among Multiple Scoring Functions
We consider the issue of query performance, and we propose a novel method for automatically predicting the difficulty of a query. Unlike a number of existing techniques which are b...
Javed A. Aslam, Virgiliu Pavlu
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VLDB
2006
ACM
171views Database» more  VLDB 2006»
16 years 4 months ago
Grid-partition index: a hybrid method for nearest-neighbor queries in wireless location-based services
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...