Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
We introduce a class of learning problems where the agent is presented with a series of tasks. Intuitively, if there is relation among those tasks, then the information gained duri...
Contemporary work increasingly involves interacting with strangers in technology-mediated environments. In this context, we come to rely on digital artifacts to infer characterist...
N. Sadat Shami, Kate Ehrlich, Geri Gay, Jeffrey T....
Answering queries posed over knowledge bases is a central problem in knowledge representation and database theory. In databases, query containment is one of the important query op...
Privacy models such as k-anonymity and -diversity typically offer an aggregate or scalar notion of the privacy property that holds collectively on the entire anonymized data set....