Abstract. The paper contains an extension of a formal model of multiagent computing system developed in previous publications towards considering a more general system state. We pr...
Stochastic optimization problems attempt to model uncertainty in the data by assuming that (part of) the input is specified in terms of a probability distribution. We consider the...
We present a formal analysis of the following view-selection problem: Given a set of queries and a database, return definitions of views that, when materialized in the database, w...
Jingni Li, Zohreh Asgharzadeh Talebi, Rada Chirkov...
We present the design of a banner advertising auction which is considerably more expressive than current designs. We describe a general model of expressive ad contracts/bidding an...
Craig Boutilier, David C. Parkes, Tuomas Sandholm,...
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...