With the advance of the Semantic Web, varying RDF data were increasingly generated, published, queried, and reused via the Web. For example, the DBpedia, a community effort to extr...
The problem of efficiently finding the best match for a query in a given set with respect to the Euclidean distance or the cosine similarity has been extensively studied. However...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...
Mechanism design is the study of preference aggregation protocols that work well in the face of self-interested agents. We present the first general-purpose techniques for automa...
Tuomas Sandholm, Vincent Conitzer, Craig Boutilier
Current relational databases require that a database schema exist prior to data entry and require manual optimization for best performance. We describe the query optimization tech...
Scott M. Meyer, Jutta Degener, John Giannandrea, B...