This paper uses the persistent object system PCLOS to survey some problems and bene ts of object persistence. The system is analyzed along several relevant dimensions. PCLOS provi...
Record linkage has a long tradition in both the statistical and the computer science literature. We survey current approaches to the record linkage problem in a privacy-aware setti...
Result diversification has recently attracted much attention as a means of increasing user satisfaction in recommender systems and web search. Many different approaches have been ...
Current rule base maintenance is wasting refinement and inference performance. There are only few maintenance concepts, which enjoy both (1) formal rule refinement and (2) utili...
We show how to nd a minimum weight loop cutset in a Bayesian network with high probability. Finding such a loop cutset is the rst step in the method of conditioning for inference....