Abstract. UML models consist of several diagrams of different types describing different views of a software system ranging from specifications of the static system structure to de...
Preference queries are relational algebra or SQL queries that contain occurrences of the winnow operator (find the most preferred tuples in a given relation). Such queries are pa...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...
Semantic scene classification based only on low-level vision cues has had limited success on unconstrained image sets. On the other hand, camera metadata related to capture condit...
We show in this paper that the influential algorithm of iterative belief propagation can be understood in terms of exact inference on a polytree, which results from deleting enoug...