Abstract. We review key constraints in the context of XML as introduced by Buneman et al. We show that one of the proposed inference rules is not sound in general, and the axiomati...
Abstract. There is currently a large interest in relational probabilistic models. While the concept of context-specific independence (CSI) has been well-studied for models such as ...
Abstract—Natural language understanding involves the simultaneous consideration of a large number of different sources of information. Traditional methods employed in language an...
Abstract. Gene trees are leaf-labeled trees inferred from molecular sequences. Due to duplication events arising in genome evolution, gene trees usually have multiple copies of som...
Abstract. Coordination is an essential technique in cooperative, distributed multiagent systems. However, sophisticated coordination strategies are not always cost-effective in all...