Recently, the C# and the VISUAL BASIC communities were tantalized by the advent of LINQ [18]--the Language INtegrated Query technology from Microsoft. LINQ represents a set of lan...
In this paper we provide a fast, data-driven solution to the failing query problem: given a query that returns an empty answer, how can one relax the query's constraints so t...
Abstract. We study the following problem in a sovereign informationsharing setting: How to ensure that the individual participants, driven solely by self-interest, will behave hone...
Huge masses of digital data about products, customers and competitors have become available for companies in the services sector. In order to exploit its inherent (and often hidde...
The major challenge in mining data streams is the issue of concept drift, the tendency of the underlying data generation process to change over time. In this paper, we propose a g...