There has been a surge of interest in the delivery of personalized information to users (e.g. personalized stocks or travel information), particularly as mobile users with limited ...
Any automated decision support software must tailor its actions or recommendations to the preferences of different users. Thus it requires some representation of user preferences ...
To compensate for the inherent impedance mismatch between the relational data model (tables of tuples) and XML (ordered, unranked trees), tree join algorithms have become the prev...
The paper contains a survey of (mainly unpublished) adaptive logics of inductive generalization. These defeasible logics are precise formulations of certain methods. Some attentio...
Exception analysis and points-to analysis are typically done in complete separation. Past algorithms for precise exception analysis (e.g., pairing throw clauses with catch stateme...