An independent set of variables is one in which no two variables occur in the same clause in a given k-SAT instance. Recently, independent sets have obtained more attention. Due t...
The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two equalsize sets of points in Rd is defined to be the minimum cost of a bipartite matching between the two pointsets. It is a natural metr...
Abstract. A classical problem in query optimization is to find the optimal ordering of a set of possibly correlated selections. We provide an ion of this problem as a generalizati...
Effort prediction is a very important issue for software project management. Historical project data sets are frequently used to support such prediction. But missing data are oft...
Scientific problem solving often involves concordance (or discordance) analysis among the result sets from different approaches. For example, different scientific analysis met...