There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
In this paper we propose a new approach to probabilistic inference on belief networks, global conditioning, which is a simple generalization of Pearl's (1986b) method of loop...
Ross D. Shachter, Stig K. Andersen, Peter Szolovit...
We give a polymorphic account of the relational algebra. We introduce a formalism of \type formulas" speci cally tuned for relational algebra expressions, and present an algo...
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
The problem of building recommender systems has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The objective of this paper is to automatically suggest and rank a list of new it...