An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Linguists seek to understand the semantics of expressions in human languages. Taking a computational point of view, there are many natural language expressions--operators in the w...
Abstract. Explicitly defining a software process model is widely recognized as a good software engineering practice. However, having a defined process does not necessarily mean tha...
Julio Ariel Hurtado Alegria, Alejandro Lagos, Alex...
We explore the possibility of a logic where a conclusion substantially improves over its premise(s): Specifically, we intend to rule out inference steps such that the premise conv...
This paper contains two contributions to very-low-bitrate video coding. First, we show that in contrast to common practice incremental techniques for rate-distortion optimization ...