Commitments provide a basis for understanding interactions in multiagent systems. Successful interoperation relies upon the interacting parties being aligned with respect to their...
We present an argument-based qualitative decision-making framework in which the social values promoted or demoted by alternative action-options are explicitly represented. We show...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
Structural indices play a significant role in improving the efficiency of XML query evaluation. Being able to compare various structural indexing techniques is critical for a DBM...
Yuqing Wu, Sofia Brenes, Tejas Totade, Shijin Josh...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
Digital Rights Management (DRM) is used to protect copyrighted content from unauthorized use. However, this has taken away the jurisdiction of the consumers over their purchased c...