We introduce a new technique to solve exactly a discrete optimization problem, based on the paradigm of “negative” thinking. The motivation is that when searching the space of...
Evguenii I. Goldberg, Luca P. Carloni, Tiziano Vil...
For the manual semantic markup of documents to become widespread, users must be able to express annotations that conform to ontologies (or schemas) that have shared meaning. Howev...
d Abstract) Paolo Boldi† Massimo Santini‡ Sebastiano Vigna∗ Deciding which kind of visit accumulates high-quality pages more quickly is one of the most often debated issue i...
We examine a setting in which a buyer wishes to purchase probabilistic information from some agent. The seller must invest effort in order to gain access to the information, and m...
We describe the design of privacy controls and feedback mechanisms for contextual IM, an instant messaging service for disclosing contextual information. We tested our designs on I...
Gary Hsieh, Karen P. Tang, Wai Yong Low, Jason I. ...