We describe Occam, a query planning algorithm that determines the best way to integrate data from dierent sources. As input, Occam takes a library of site descriptions and a user ...
Information distillation is the task that aims to extract relevant passages of text from massive volumes of textual and audio sources, given a query. In this paper, we investigate...
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to act as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both within company ...
This paper examines the investment behaviour of an incumbent and a potential entrant that are competing for a patent with a stochastic payo . We incorporate asymmetric information...
Information theoretical approaches to sensory processing in electric fish have focused on the encoding of amplitude modulations in a single sensory pathway in the South American gy...