In contrast with classical reasoning, where a solution is either correct or incorrect, approximate reasoning tries to compute solutions which are close to the ideal solution, with...
Alan Verberne, Frank van Harmelen, Annette ten Tei...
If a two-player social welfare maximization problem does not admit a PTAS, we prove that any maximal-in-range truthful mechanism that runs in polynomial time cannot achieve an app...
The maximum constraint satisfaction problem (Max CSP) is the following computational problem: an instance is a finite collection of constraints on a set of variables, and the goal...
Peter Jonsson, Andrei A. Krokhin, Fredrik Kuivinen
The topological properties of a network directly impact the flow of information through a system. For example, in natural populations, the network of inter-individual contacts aff...
Server-side programming is one of the key technologies that support today's WWW environment. It makes it possible to generate Web pages dynamically according to a user's...