Quine introduced a famous distinction between the `notional' sense and the `relational' sense of certain attitude verbs. The distinction is both intuitive and sound but i...
Abstract-- Our starting point is the multiplicative utility function which is extensively used in the theory of multicriteria decision making. Its associativity is shown and as its...
We describe a minimalist methodology to develop usage-based recommender systems for multimedia digital libraries. A prototype recommender system based on this strategy was impleme...
Johan Bollen, Michael L. Nelson, Gary Geisler, Raq...
This paper describes the deployment of residential broadband networks by relating two parallel but contrasting stories. Story 1 considers network providers' search for a kill...
In the constraint database community, FO+poly and FO+linear have been proposed as foundations for spatial database query languages. One of the strengths of this approach is that t...