Abstract. Utility functions of several variables are ubiquitous in economics. Their maximization requires inversion of the gradient map. Using convex analysis tools, we provide a r...
: Advances in data storage and image acquisition technologies have enabled the creation of large image datasets. In this scenario, it is necessary to develop appropriate informatio...
Emerging applications introduce the requirement for novel association-rule mining algorithms that will be scalable not only with respect to the number of records (number of rows) ...
Alexandros Nanopoulos, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, ...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
Sensor deployment is a critical issue because it affects the cost and detection capability of a wireless sensor network. In this work, we consider two related deployment problems: ...