: The evaluation of information retrieval systems involves the creation of potential user needs for which systems try to find relevant documents. The difficulty of these topics dif...
In information-integration systems, source relations often have limitations on access patterns to their data; i.e., when one must provide values for certain attributes of a relatio...
High-level controllers that operate robots in dynamic, uncertain domains are concerned with at least two reasoning tasks dealing with the effects of noisy sensors and effectors: T...
Like people who casually assess similarity between spatial scenes in their routine activities, users of pictorial databases are often interested in retrieving scenes that are simil...
This paper tests the hypothesis that generic recovery techniques, such as process pairs, can survive most application faults without using application-specific information. We ex...