View materialization is recognized to be one of the most effective ways to increase the Data Warehouse performance; nevertheless, due to the computational complexity of the techniq...
The goal of this paper is to further investigate the extreme behaviour of the proportional membership model (FCPM) in contrast to the central tendency of fuzzy c-means (FCM). A dat...
Susana Nascimento, Boris Mirkin, Fernando Moura-Pi...
P2P systems represent a large portion of the Internet traffic which makes the data discovery of great importance to the user and the broad Internet community. Hence, the power of ...
A new distance measure between probability density functions (pdfs) is introduced, which we refer to as the Laplacian pdf distance. The Laplacian pdf distance exhibits a remarkabl...
This paper describes a theoretical framework for inducing knowledge from incomplete data sets. The general framework can be used with any formalism based on a lattice structure. It...