Abstract. We propose various models for lobbying in a probabilistic environment, in which an actor (called “The Lobby”) seeks to influence the voters’ preferences of voting ...
Unlike simple questions, complex questions cannot be answered by simply extracting named entities. These questions require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple d...
Case-based Reasoning (CBR) is a mature technology for building knowledge-based systems that are capable to produce useful results even if no answer matches the query exactly. Often...
A fragmentary pattern is a multiset of non-empty strings, and it matches a string w if all the strings in it occur within w without any overlaps. We study some fundamental issues o...
Hideaki Hori, Shinichi Shimozono, Masayuki Takeda,...
We consider delay management in railway systems. Given delayed trains, we want to find a waiting policy for the connecting trains minimizing the weighted total passenger delay. If...