We elaborate on the mathematical foundations of the meaning coordination problem that agents face in open environments. We investigate to which extend the BarwiseSeligman theory o...
In computational biology, gene order data is often modelled as signed permutations. A classical problem in genome comparison is to detect conserved segments in a permutation, that ...
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
When buying COTS-based software, the customer has to choose between what is available. The supplier may add some minor parts, but rarely everything the customer wants. This means t...
We consider the problem of sampling almost uniformly from the set of contingency tables with given row and column sums, when the number of rows is a constant. Cryan and Dyer [3] h...
Mary Cryan, Martin E. Dyer, Leslie Ann Goldberg, M...