Queries to data warehouses often involve hundreds of complex aggregations over large volumes of data, and so it is infeasible to compute these queries by scanning the data sources ...
We argue that the quality of a summary can be evaluated based on how many concepts in the original document(s) that reserved after summarization. Here, a concept refers to an abst...
We consider Bayesian information collection, in which a measurement policy collects information to support a future decision. This framework includes ranking and selection, continu...
The topological properties of a network directly impact the flow of information through a system. In evolving populations, the topology of inter-individual interactions affects th...
We study sensor minimization problems in the context of fault diagnosis. Fault diagnosis consists in synthesizing a diagnoser that observes a given plant and identifies faults in t...