Abstract. User preferences are a fundamental ingredient of personalized database applications, in particular those in which the user context plays a key role. Given a set of prefer...
Partially-observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) provide a powerful model for sequential decision-making problems with partially-observed state and are known to have (appro...
Sets of features in Markov decision processes can play a critical role ximately representing value and in abstracting the state space. Selection of features is crucial to the succe...
abstraction rules that hide the complexity of systems of components. We've begun this process in the domain of sensor/actuator network applications, observing that in manyappl...
Web services advocate loosely coupled systems, although current loosely coupled applications are limited to stateless services. The reason for this limitation is the lack of a met...
Andreas Wombacher, Peter Fankhauser, Erich J. Neuh...