—Authority flow and proximity search have been used extensively in measuring the association between entities in data graphs, ranging from the Web to relational and XML database...
Currently, the bag of visual words (BOW) representation has received wide applications in object categorization. However, the BOW representation ignores the dependency relationshi...
Index tuning, i.e., selecting the indexes appropriate for a workload, is a crucial problem in database system tuning. In this paper, we solve index tuning for large problem instan...
Sequence mining is an important data mining task. In order to retrieve interesting sequences from a large database, a minimum support threshold is needed to be specified. Unfortun...
Query-by-example video retrieval is receiving an increasing attention in recent years. One of the state-of-art approaches is the Bag-of-visual Words (BoW) based technique, where im...