We show in this paper that the influential algorithm of iterative belief propagation can be understood in terms of exact inference on a polytree, which results from deleting enoug...
Conventional sequential pattern mining methods may meet inherent difficulties in mining databases with long sequences and noise. They may generate a huge number of short and trivi...
Hye-Chung Kum, Jian Pei, Wei Wang 0010, Dean Dunca...
Point sets become an increasingly popular shape representation. Most shape processing and rendering tasks require the approximation of a continuous surface from the point data. We...
Consistent query answering is the problem of characterizing and computing the semantically correct answers to queries from a database that may not satisfy certain integrity constr...
Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Loreto Bravo, Enrico Francon...
Recently direct optimization of information retrieval (IR) measures becomes a new trend in learning to rank. Several methods have been proposed and the effectiveness of them has ...