The presence of encyclopedic Web sources, such as Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), World Factbook, etc. calls for new querying techniques that are simple and yet mor...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...
We consider the problem of incorporating arbitrary preferences in planning systems. A preference may be seen as a goal or constraint that is desirable, but not necessary, to satis...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Abstract The integration of database and programming languages is difficult due to the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. We present a solution wher...
Miguel Garcia, Anastasia Izmaylova, Sibylle Schupp
The presence of uncertainty in the real world makes robustness to be a desired property of solutions to constraint satisfaction problems. Roughly speaking, a solution is robust if...