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TBILLC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2007
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we present a game theoretic account of a subclass of ‘relevance’ implicatures arising from irrelevant answers. We show that these phenomena can be expl...
SIGECOM
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: The principles of protein folding and evolution pose problems of very high inherent complexity. Often these problems are tackled using simplified protein models, e.g. ...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
Text documents often embed data that is structured in nature, and we can expose this structured data using information extraction technology. By processing a text database with inf...
SIGMOD
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2002
ACM
This paper addresses the problem of evaluating ranked top-? queries with expensive predicates. As major DBMSs now all support expensive user-defined predicates for Boolean queries...