Automated extraction of structured data from Web sources often leads to large heterogeneous knowledge bases (KB), with data and schema items numbering in the hundreds of thousands...
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
We consider soft constraint problems where some of the preferences may be unspecified. This models, for example, settings where agents are distributed and have privacy issues, or ...
Mirco Gelain, Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, ...
The execution performance of an information gathering plan can suffer significantly due to remote I/O latencies. A streaming dataflow model of execution addresses the problem to s...
DNA copy number variants (CNV) are gains and losses of segments of chromosomes, and comprise an important class of genetic variation. Recently, various microarray hybridization ba...