Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
Abstract. Past research work on modeling and managing temporal information has, so far, failed to elicit support in commercial database systems. The increasing popularity of XML oļ...
The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely speciļ¬ed databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Recently, dependency grammar has become quite popular in relatively free word-order languages. We encounter many structural ambiguities when parsing a sentence using dependency gr...
In data mining, similarity or distance between attributes is one of the central notions. Such a notion can be used to build attribute hierarchies etc. Similarity metrics can be us...