Skyline query has been gaining much interest in database research communities in recent years. Most existing studies focus mainly on centralized systems, and resolving the problem...
Shiyuan Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Anthony K. H. Tung, L...
Information flows in a network where individuals influence each other. The diffusion rate captures how efficiently the information can diffuse among the users in the network. We p...
We present DL8, an exact algorithm for finding a decision tree that optimizes a ranking function under size, depth, accuracy and leaf constraints. Because the discovery of optimal...
The top-k retrieval problem requires finding k objects most similar to a given query object. Similarities between objects are most often computed as aggregated similarities of the...
This paper focuses on the problem of identifying influential users of micro-blogging services. Twitter, one of the most notable micro-blogging services, employs a social-networkin...