The efficiency of mergesortprogramsis analysed under a simple unit-cost model. In our analysis the time performance of the sorting programs includes the costs of key comparisons, e...
A probabilistic learning model for vague queries and missing or imprecise information in databases is described. Instead of retrieving only a set of answers, our approach yields a...
What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Abstract. This paper proposes initial steps towards a generic framework for modeling the scientific process. It is generic according to two main axes. First, it can be instantiated...
Abstract. User generated content in general, and blogs in particular, form an interesting and relatively little explored domain for mining knowledge. We address the task of blog di...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke