Abstract. Reviews and review based rankings are widely used in recommendation systems to provide potential customers quality information about selected products. During the last ye...
Abstract. Recent work on analyzing query logs shows that a significant fraction of queries are temporal, i.e., relevancy is dependent on time, and temporal queries play an importan...
Abstract. In the aftermath of a large-scale disaster, agents’ decisions derive from self-interested (e.g. survival), common-good (e.g. victims’ rescue) and teamwork (e.g. fire...
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
—Formal models are often used to verify systems and prove their correctness, and ensure that transformed models remain consistent to the original system. However, formal techniqu...