Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Complex systems abound in nature and are becoming increasingly important in artificial systems. The understanding and controlling of such systems is a major challenge. This paper ...
Since the 1970’s, database systems have been “compute-centric”. When a computation needs the data, it requests the data, and the data are pulled through the system. We belie...
Subi Arumugam, Alin Dobra, Christopher M. Jermaine...
Diversity and memory are two major mechanisms used in biology to keep the adaptability of organisms in the everchanging environment in nature. These mechanisms can be integrated i...
Proposed models for spatially-aware extensions of role-based access control (RBAC) combine the administrative and security advantages of RBAC with the dynamic nature of mobile and...