It is apparent that perturbations of the North American electric power grid follow the patterns and characteristics of Self Organized Critical (SOC) systems. Published studies sho...
We present a novel framework for answering complex questions that relies on question decomposition. Complex questions are decomposed by a procedure that operates on a Markov chain...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, V. Finley Lacatusu, Andrew Hic...
During the last ten years the approach to business management has deeply changed, and companies have understood the importance of enforcing achievement of the goals defined by the...
HECATAEUS is an open-source software tool for enabling impact prediction, what-if analysis, and regulation of relational database schema evolution. We follow a graph theoretic appr...
George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Si...
In this paper we discuss a number of implications which follow from the way that the information systems discipline has developed, largely separately, from computer ethics. These ...