The notion of rules is very popular and appears in different flavors, for example as association rules in data mining or as functional (or multivalued) dependencies in databases. ...
The scalability problem in data mining involves the development of methods for handling large databases with limited computational resources. In this paper, we present a two-phase...
Unprecedented amounts of media data are publicly accessible. However, it is increasingly difficult to integrate relevant media from multiple and diverse sources for effective appli...
Abstract. For a book, the title and abstract provide a good first impression of what to expect from it. For a database, getting a first impression is not so straightforward. Whil...
One fundamental task in near-neighbor search as well as other similarity matching efforts is to find a distance function that can efficiently quantify the similarity between two o...