We consider auction design in a setting with costly preference elicitation. Well designed auctions can help to avoid unnecessary elicitation while determining efficient allocations...
Abstract. One of the fundamental problems in relational database management is the handling of the join operation. Two of the problems are: 1) finding a page access sequence which...
An alternative relation to Pareto-dominance is studied. The relation is based on ranking a set of solutions according to each separate objective and an aggregation function to calc...
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...
Preprocessing, a major component of Character Recognition System, has direct effect on the recognition system by its performance. Using wavelet transform, this paper mainly focuse...