Recommender systems — systems that suggest to users in e-commerce sites items that might interest them — adopt a static view of the recommendation process and treat it as a pr...
Data warehouses collect copies of information from remote sources into a single database. Since the remote data is cached at the warehouse, it appears as local relations to the us...
Learning Automata (LA) were recently shown to be valuable tools for designing Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning algorithms. One of the principal contributions of LA theory is tha...
Abstract. Notations like SGML and XML represent document structures using tree structures; while this is in general a step forward from earlier systems, it creates certain difficul...
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...