Sets of features in Markov decision processes can play a critical role ximately representing value and in abstracting the state space. Selection of features is crucial to the succe...
Let be a finite, ordered alphabet, and consider a string x = x1x2 . . . xn n . A secondary index for x answers alphabet range queries of the form: Given a range [al, ar] , retu...
Spatial scan statistics are used to determine hotspots in spatial data, and are widely used in epidemiology and biosurveillance. In recent years, there has been much effort invest...
Deepak Agarwal, Andrew McGregor, Jeff M. Phillips,...
We revisit the classical chase procedure, studying its properties as well as its applicability to standard database problems. We settle (in the negative) the open problem of decid...
Abstract. A Semi-Separated Pair Decomposition (SSPD), with parameter s > 1, of a set S ⊂ Rd is a set {(Ai, Bi)} of pairs of subsets of S such that for each i, there are balls ...
Mohammad Ali Abam, Paz Carmi, Mohammad Farshi, Mic...