An enormous amount of information available via the Internet exists. Much of this data is in the form of text-based documents. These documents cover a variety of topics that are v...
Given a set of jobs, each consisting of a number of weighted intervals on the real line, and a number m of machines, we study the problem of selecting a maximum weight subset of th...
The objective of data reduction is to obtain a compact representation of a large data set to facilitate repeated use of non-redundant information with complex and slow learning alg...
We consider Coalitional Skill Games (CSGs), a simple model of cooperation among agents. This is a restricted form of coalitional games, where each agent has a set of skills that a...
Spreadsheets applications allow data to be stored with low development overheads, but also with low data quality. Reporting on data from such sources is difficult using traditiona...