Sequential von Neumann-Morgernstern (VM) games are a very general formalism for representing multi-agent interactions and planning problems in a variety of types of environments. ...
We study a local version of the order property in several frameworks, with an emphasis on frameworks where the compactness theorem fails: (1) Inside a fixed model, (2) for classes ...
This paper investigates methods to automatically infer structural information from large XML documents. Using XML as a reference format, we approach the schema generation problem ...
In the analysis of any learning environment, whether small or large, one observes within it a "set of human activities related to each other so they can be viewed as a whole&...
The problem of integrating information from con icting sources comes up in many current applications, such as cooperative information systems, heterogeneous databases, and multi-a...