—The analysis of stakeholder requirements is a critical aspect of software engineering. A common way of specifying stakeholder requirements is in terms of a hierarchy of goals wh...
Sotirios Liaskos, Sheila A. McIlraith, John Mylopo...
We describe here a general approach for rare itemset mining. While mining literature has been almost exclusively focused on frequent itemsets, in many practical situations rare on...
A substantial part of the database research field focusses on optimizing XQuery evaluation. However, optimization techniques are rarely validated by means of cross platform bench...
Although the interest in nature-inspired optimization of dynamic problems has been growing constantly over the past decade, very little has been done to analyze and characterize a...
General combinatorial auctions—auctions in which bidders place unrestricted bids for bundles of goods—are the subject of increasing study. Much of this work has focused on alg...