Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a data analysis technique for representing measurements of (dis)similarity among pairs of objects as distances between points in a low-dimensiona...
Abstract: Qualitative Spatial Reasoning can be greatly improved if metric information can be represented and reasoning can be performed on it; moreover, modelling vagueness and unc...
Abstract. An object o of a database D is called a hot item, if there is a sufficiently large population of other objects in D that are similar to o. In other words, hot items are ...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...