We describe some ideas and results about the following problem: Given a set, a family of \preference relations" on the set, and a \priority" among those preference relat...
Relation extraction is a difficult open research problem with important applications in several fields such as knowledge management, web mining, ontology building, intelligent sys...
In this paper, we present Power Agent - a pervasive game designed to encourage teenagers and their families to reduce energy consumption in the home. The idea behind this mobile p...
Eight years ago, functional dependencies, a concept from the theory of relational databases, were proposed as a mechanism for avoiding common problems with multiple parameter type...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...