With the increased use of the web has come a corresponding increase in information overload that users face when trying to locate specific webpages, especially as a majority of vi...
The wealth of information contained in the world-wide web has created much interest in systems for integrating information from multiple sites. We describe a universal wrapper mac...
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Preference elicitation — the process of asking queries to determine parties’ preferences — is a key part of many problems in electronic commerce. For example, a shopping age...
Lifting can greatly reduce the cost of inference on firstorder probabilistic graphical models, but constructing the lifted network can itself be quite costly. In online applicatio...