Abstract. Very often a planning problem can be formulated as a ranking problem: i.e. to find an order relation over a set of alternatives. The ranking of a finite set of alternat...
Query processing in data integration occurs over network-bound, autonomous data sources. This requires extensions to traditional optimization and execution techniques for three re...
Zachary G. Ives, Daniela Florescu, Marc Friedman, ...
MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the ...
Game developers are faced with the difficult task of creating non-player characters with convincing behavior. This commonly involves an exhaustive specification of their actions i...
As computer systems continue to grow in power and access more networked content and services, we believe there will be an increasing need to provide more user-centric systems that...