Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...
This paper describes a method for decision making using argumentation. The method is intended to produce the decision considered most likely to promote the agent's aims and as...
Fahd Saud Nawwab, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Paul E...
This paper presents our practical experience of developing an ontology using the EXPLODE method for Value-Added Publishing. Value-Added Publishing is a relatively new area of elec...
We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...