Bids submitted in auctions are usually treated as enforceable commitments in most bidding and auction theory literature. In reality bidders often withdraw winning bids before the ...
The size of Internet has been growing very fast and many documents appear every day in the Net. Users find many problems to obtain the information that they really need. In order t...
Abstract. A crucial problem in machine learning is to choose an appropriate representation of data, in a way that emphasizes the relations we are interested in. In many cases this ...
While previous watermarking-based approaches to intellectual property protection (IPP) have asymmetrically emphasized the IP provider's rights, the true goal of IPP is to ens...
Andrew E. Caldwell, Hyun-Jin Choi, Andrew B. Kahng...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...