We study the problem of learning regular tree languages from text. We show that the framework of function distinguishability as introduced by the author in Theoretical Computer Sc...
The goal of Knowledge Compilation is to represent a Boolean expression in a format in which it can answer a range of online-queries in PTIME. The online-query of main interest to ...
This paper solves an important problem left open in the literature by showing that U-shapes are unnecessary in iterative learning. A U-shape occurs when a learner first learns, t...
Much work has been done on learning various classes of "simple" monotone functions under the uniform distribution. In this paper we give the first unconditional lower bo...
The window query model is widely used in data stream management systems where the focus of a continuous query is limited to a set of the most recent tuples. In this dissertation, ...