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...
Background: The development of e-Science presents a major set of opportunities and challenges for the future progress of biological and life scientific research. Major new tools a...
A theory, graphical notation, mathematical calculus and implementation for finding whether two given expressions can, at execution time, denote references attached to the same obj...
We consider the restless multi-armed bandit (RMAB) problem with unknown dynamics. In this problem, at each time, a player chooses K out of N (N > K) arms to play. The state of ...
Bottom-up segmentation tends to rely on local features. Yet, many natural and man-made objects contain repeating elements. Such structural and more spread-out features are importa...