Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
Procedures for collective inference make simultaneous statistical judgments about the same variables for a set of related data instances. For example, collective inference could b...
Although integrity constraints have long been used to maintain data consistency, there are situations in which they may not be enforced or satisfied. In this paper, we present Con...
We study the performance issue of the “iterative” record linkage (RL) problem, where match and merge operations may occur together in iterations until convergence emerges. We ...
We consider a variation of the resource allocation problem. In the traditional problem, there is a global planner who would like to assign a set of players to a set of resources s...