Abstract. In this paper we initiate an exploration of relationships between “preference elicitation”, a learning-style problem that arises in combinatorial auctions, and the pr...
Avrim Blum, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Tuomas Sandholm, M...
We show how the database community’s notion of a generic query interface for data aggregation can be applied to ad-hoc networks of sensor devices. As has been noted in the senso...
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael J. Frankli...
There is currently great interest in building information mediators that can integrate informationfrom multipledata sources such as databases or Web sources. The query response ti...
Object relationships in modern software systems are becoming increasingly numerous and complex. Programmers who try to find violations of such relationships need new tools that al...
We present cq-programs, which enhance nonmonotonic description logics (dl-) programs by conjunctive queries (CQ) and union of conjunctive queries (UCQ) over Description Logics kno...
Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Krennwa...