A cooperative database allows the user to specify approximate or vague query conditions. A vague query requires the database system to rank the retrieved answers according to thei...
We address the problem of efficiently discovering the influential nodes in a social network under the susceptible/infected/susceptible (SIS) model, a diffusion model where nodes ar...
In attempting to address real-life decision problems, where uncertainty about input data prevails, some kind of representation of imprecise information is important and several ha...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
A new crossover technique, we named Rank and Proximity Based Crossover (RPC), to improve the speed and quality of solutions in Genetic search, is proposed. In the proposed strategy...