XML is quickly becoming the de facto standard for data exchange over the Internet. This is creating a new set of data management requirements involving XML, such as the need to st...
Igor Tatarinov, Stratis Viglas, Kevin S. Beyer, Ja...
This work is done as part of the Tacos project1 whose aims is to define a component-based approach to specify trustworthy systems from the requirements phase to the specification p...
Building cost estimation models is often considered a search problem in which the solver should return an optimal solution satisfying an objective function. This solution also nee...
In this paper, we study the problem of discovering interesting patterns through user's interactive feedback. We assume a set of candidate patterns (i.e., frequent patterns) h...
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...