Abstract. This article introduces a technique for improving the efficiency of diagnosis through approximate compilation. We extend the approach of compiling a diagnostic model, as...
Preference elicitation is a serious bottleneck in many decision support applications and agent specification tasks. CP-nets were designed to make the preference elicitation proces...
Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Online communities like Flickr, del.icio.us and YouTube have established themselves as very popular and powerful services for publishing and searching contents, but also for ident...
Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Sebastian Michel, Tho...
: Skyline queries have recently received a lot of attention due to their intuitive query formulation: users can state preferences with respect to several attributes. Unlike numeric...