Combinatorial auctions, that is, auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auction mechanisms in multi-i...
We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
We present Nyaya, a system for the management of Semantic-Web data which couples a general-purpose and extensible storage mechanism with efficient ontology reasoning and querying ...
Roberto De Virgilio, Giorgio Orsi, Letizia Tanca, ...
We extend a recently developed method [1] for learning the semantics of image databases using text and pictures. We incorporate statistical natural language processing in order to...
The union of Interactive Digital TV (IDTV) and Web promotes the development of new interactive multimedia services, enjoyable while watching TV even on the new handheld digital TV...
Stefano Ferretti, Marco Roccetti, Johannes Andrich