The rise of social interactions on the Web requires developing new methods of information organization and discovery. To that end, we propose a generative community-based probabil...
Reactive systems perform their tasks through interaction with their users or with other systems (as parts of a bigger system). An essential requirement for modeling such systems is...
In this paper we consider two questions related to student modeling in an intelligent tutoring system: 1) What kind of student model should we build when we design a new system; 2...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...
In collaborative e-commerce environments, interoperation is a prerequisite for data warehouses that are physically scattered along the value chain. Adopting system and information...