In many applications transactions between the elements of an information hierarchy occur over time. For example, the product offers of a department store can be organized into pro...
Abstract— A disjoint support decomposition (DSD) is a representation of a Boolean function F obtained by composing two or more simpler component functions such that the component...
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...
Automatic Term Recognition (ATR) is concerned with discovering terminology in large volumes of text corpora. Technical terms are vital elements for understanding the techniques us...
Most practically relevant domains include some degree of conceptual dynamics, i.e. new conceptual elements arise, and some old ones become irrelevant. This type of change imposes a...