Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
-- We characterize the best achievable performance of lossy compression algorithms operating on arbitrary random sources, and with respect to general distortion measures. Direct an...
Since the concept of autopoiesis was proposed as a model of minimal living systems by Maturana and Varela, and applied to social systems by Luhmann, there has been only a few math...
Global constraints are used in constraint programming to help users specify patterns that occur frequently in the real world. In addition, global constraints facilitate the use of ...
We establish a declarative theory of forgetting for disjunctive logic programs. The suitability of this theory is justified by a number of desirable properties. In particular, one...