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DAWAK
2001
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Matchmaking for Structured Objects
A fundamental task in multi-agent systems is matchmaking, which is to retrieve and classify service descriptions of agents that (best) match a given service request. Several approa...
Thomas Eiter, Daniel Veit, Jörg P. Mülle...
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
EDBT
1990
ACM
108views Database» more  EDBT 1990»
15 years 10 months ago
Deductive Databases - Theory Meets Practice
Deductive Databases are coming of age with the emergence of efficient and easy to use systems that support queries, reasoning, and application development on databases through dec...
Carlo Zaniolo
POPL
1989
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
How to Make ad-hoc Polymorphism Less ad-hoc
raction that a programming language provides influences the structure and algorithmic complexity of the resulting programs: just imagine creating an artificial intelligence engine ...
Philip Wadler, Stephen Blott
VLDB
2007
ACM
114views Database» more  VLDB 2007»
16 years 7 months ago
XRPC: Interoperable and Efficient Distributed XQuery
We propose XRPC, a minimal XQuery extension that enables distributed yet efficient querying of heterogeneous XQuery data sources. XRPC enhances the existing concept of XQuery func...
Ying Zhang, Peter A. Boncz