Information extraction is one of the most important techniques used in Text Mining. One of the main problems in building information extraction (IE) systems is that the knowledge ...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...
We study the problem of e cient maintenance of materialized views that may contain duplicates. This problem is particularly important when queries against such views involve aggre...
Voting is a critical component of any democratic process; and electronic voting systems should be developed following best practices for critical system development. E-voting has i...
A pseudo-Boolean function is a real-valued function defined on {0, 1}n . A k-bounded function is a pseudo-Boolean function that can be expressed as a sum of subfunctions each of w...