Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...
Besides traditional domains (e.g., resource allocation, data mining applications), algorithms for medoid computation and related problems will play an important role in numerous e...
Entity Resolution (ER) is an important real world problem that has attracted significant research interest over the past few years. It deals with determining which object descript...
Zhaoqi Chen, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sharad Mehrotr...
This paper discusses ongoing research on scientific workflows at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (IC - UNICAMP) Brazil. Our projects with bio-scientists have le...
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, José de Jesús Pérez Al...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...