Cluster analysis is a primary method for database mining. It is either used as a stand-alone tool to get insight into the distribution of a data set, e.g. to focus further analysi...
Mihael Ankerst, Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Krie...
In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by...
This paper proposes a method for detecting instances of shape classes that exhibit variable structure. The term "variable structure" is used to characterize shape classes...
Vassilis Athitsos, Jingbin Wang, Stan Sclaroff, Ma...
The high quality, structured data from Web structured sources is invaluable for many applications. Hidden Web databases are not directly crawlable by Web search engines and are on...
Modern web search engines are expected to return top-k results efficiently given a query. Although many dynamic index pruning strategies have been proposed for efficient top-k com...