This brief revisits the problem of conversion between number systems and asks the following question: given a nonnegative decimal number , what is the value of the digit at positio...
We consider a problem of considerable practical interest: the recovery of a data matrix from a sampling of its entries. Suppose that we observe m entries selected uniformly at ran...
We introduce a simple and practical method for repairing inconsistent databases. Given a possibly inconsistent database, the idea is to properly represent the underlying problem, i...
Ofer Arieli, Marc Denecker, Bert Van Nuffelen, Mau...
Kripke (1982, Wittgenstein on rules and private language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) presents a rule-following paradox in terms of what we meant by our past use of "plus",...
ct Although always present in text, word sense ambiguity only recently became regarded as a problem to information retrieval which was potentially solvable. The growth of interest ...