This paper is concerned with taking an engineering approach towards the application of metaheuristic problem solving methods, i.e. heuristics that aim to solve a wide variety of p...
Bill Joy's deep pessimism is now famous. "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," his defense of that pessimism, has been read by, it seems, everyone -- and many of t...
We studied how actual users find items of interest in today's complex, recommender-rich information environments, what role recommenders play in it, and if recommenders incre...
In a two player game, a referee asks two cooperating players (who are not allowed to communicate) questions sampled from some distribution and decides whether they win or not base...
Electronic argumentation support is increasingly important in today's networked society. Virtual research collaboration, e-business, and many other domains of professional li...