In a simple cooperative MAS model where a collection of "querying agents" can send queries to a collection of "information agents", we formalize the problem of ...
In this paper, we introduce preferential regular path queries. These are regular path queries whose symbols are annotated with preference weights for "scaling" up or down...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...
Abstract. We present a semantics and answer set programs for relational peer data exchange systems. When a peer answers a query, it exchanges data with other peers in order to supp...