Object-Relational and Object-Oriented DBMSs allow users to invoke time-consuming ("expensive") methods in their queries. When queries containing these expensive methods a...
The formulation of trace quotient is shared by many computer vision problems; however, it was conventionally approximated by an essentially different formulation of quotient trace,...
Industrial diagnostics is an important application area for many AI formalisms. Temporal diagnostics, based on analyzing temporal relations between values of crucial variables, is...
With the substantial change of declarative query languages from plain SQL to the so-called \object SQLs", in particular OQL, there has surprisingly been not much change in the...
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) was popularized as a tool for data mining by Lee and Seung in 1999. NMF attempts to approximate a matrix with nonnegative entries by a produ...