We address the inference control problem in data cubes with some data known to users through external knowledge. The goal of inference controls is to prevent exact values of sensi...
: The explosive growth of the World Wide Web, and the resulting information overload, has led to a miniexplosion in World Wide Web search engines. This mini-explosion, in turn, led...
A universal agent should be capable of gathering information from arbitrary heterogeneous sites and offer intelligent information services on its own based on information so gathe...
Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
Information extraction systems have been dealt with at length from the viewpoint of users posing definite questions whose expected answer is to be found in a document collection. T...