In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Knowing the reputations of your own and/or competitors' products is important for marketing and customer relationship management. It is, however, very costly to collect and a...
Predictive models developed by applying Data Mining techniques are used to improve forecasting accuracy in the airline business. In order to maximize the revenue on a flight, the ...
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
A Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) provides wireless links among proximate devices, usually carried by an individual. As WPAN gains momentum in ubiquitous usage, the interfer...