Abstract: Given a relation and a ranking of its tuples, but no information about the ranking function, we are interested in synthesizing simple scoring functions that reproduce the ranking. Our system ...

The <min_value> parameter for the numeric versions of this function does not need to be aligned to numeric zero with respect to the <increment_by> value. You can specify a source increment of 2 and a ...

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Abstract: A parameter estimation scheme based on the adaptive modelling of the score function of M-estimators is presented. The weights of basis functions are estimated from the data to match the ...