A technique called user views has recently been proposed to focus user attention on relevant information in response to provenance queries over workflow executions [1, 2]: Given u...
Olivier Biton, Susan B. Davidson, Sanjeev Khanna, ...
The World-Wide-Web is less agent-friendly than we might hope. Most information on the Web is presented in loosely structured natural language text with no agent-readable semantics...
This paper presents a philosophy underlying CS-1 programming projects, and illustrates this philosophy with a concrete example. Integral to the philosophy is the use of Ada packag...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
is the level of abstraction: a logical model ignores the constraints that the underlying database technology imposes and presents a simplified view. Sometimes physical database des...