: In this paper, a novel approach to the problem of estimating the heavy–tail exponent α > 0 of a distribution is proposed. It is based on the fact that block–maxima of siz...
The wide adaptation of GPS and cellular technologies has created many applications that collect and maintain large repositories of data in the form of trajectories. Previous work ...
Marcos R. Vieira, Petko Bakalov, Vassilis J. Tsotr...
Abstract. As a novel research direction, privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) has received a great deal of attentions from more and more researchers, and a large number of PPDM al...
We present a technique for augmenting annotated training data with hierarchical word clusters that are automatically derived from a large unannotated corpus. Cluster membership is...
Background: Spatially mapped large scale gene expression databases enable quantitative comparison of data measurements across genes, anatomy, and phenotype. In most ongoing effort...
Christopher Lau, Lydia Ng, Carol Thompson, Sayan D...