Abstract. The problem of dealing with inconsistent data while integrating XML data from different sources is an important task, necessary to improve data integration quality. Typic...
Statistics play a key role in influencing the quality of plans chosen by a database query optimizer. In this paper, we identify the statistics that are essential for an optimizer....
We are interested in multi-agent contracting, in which customers must solicit the resources and capabilities of other, self-interested agents in order to accomplish their goals. G...
The set of partially interdependent lexical and syntactic decisions that have to be made in the process of natural language generation are best seen as a complex planning and sear...
We develop a decision-theoretic method that yields approximate, low cost troubleshooting plans by making more relevant observations and devoting more time to generate a plan. The ...