Companies such as Zara and World Co. have recently implemented novel product development processes and supply chain architectures enabling them to make more product design and ass...
We consider the classical finite-state discounted Markovian decision problem, and we introduce a new policy iteration-like algorithm for finding the optimal state costs or Q-facto...
Many researchers have proposed classification systems that automatically classify email in order to reduce information overload. However, none of these systems are in use today. T...
In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...