The paper presents an efficient solution to decision problems where direct partial information on the distribution of the states of nature is available, either by observations of ...
Databases are often incomplete because of the presence of disjunctive information, due to con icts, partial knowledge and other reasons. Queries against such databases often ask q...
Recent years have seen a growing interest in research into patent retrieval. One of the key issues in conducting information retrieval (IR) research is meaningful evaluation of the...
Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improving the likelihood and quality of ...
Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Fra...
Streams of data often originate from many distributed sources. A distributed stream processing system publishes such streams of data and enables queries over the streams. This allo...
Alasdair J. G. Gray, Werner Nutt, M. Howard Willia...