We consider on-line density estimation with the multivariate Gaussian distribution. In each of a sequence of trials, the learner must posit a mean µ and covariance Σ; the learner...
Developing cost models for query optimization is significantly harder for XML queries than for traditional relational queries. The reason is that XML query operators are much mor...
Ning Zhang 0002, Peter J. Haas, Vanja Josifovski, ...
The number of potentially-related data resources available for querying -- databases, data warehouses, virtual integrated schemas -continues to grow rapidly. Perhaps no area has s...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salm...
In many retrieval tasks, one important goal involves retrieving a diverse set of results (e.g., documents covering a wide range of topics for a search query). First of all, this r...
We present an algorithm for on-line, incremental discovery of temporal-difference (TD) networks. The key contribution is the establishment of three criteria to expand a node in TD...