In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such that the amoun...
In this paper, we present a novel information theoretic approach to image segmentation. We cast the segmentation problem as the maximization of the mutual information between the ...
Alan S. Willsky, Anthony J. Yezzi Jr., John W. Fis...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new approach, parallel iterative improvement (PII), to solving the stable matching problem. This approach treats the stable matching problem a...
Ranking a set of retrieved documents according to their relevance to a query is a popular problem in information retrieval. Methods that learn ranking functions are difficult to o...
Database storage management in clustered storage environments is a manual, time-consuming, and error-prone task. Such management involves regular movement of database objects acro...