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CP
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Decomposition in Constraint Optimization Problems
Decomposition is a powerful technique for reducing the size of a backtracking search tree. However, when solving constraint optimization problems (COP's) the standard techniqu...
Matthew Kitching, Fahiem Bacchus
EKAW
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
On the Influence of Description Logics Ontologies on Conceptual Similarity
Similarity measures play a key role in the Semantic Web perspective. Indeed, most of the ontology related operations such as ontology learning, ontology alignment, ontology ranking...
Claudia d'Amato, Steffen Staab, Nicola Fanizzi
ER
2008
Springer
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Managing the History of Metadata in Support for DB Archiving and Schema Evolution
Modern information systems, and web information systems in particular, are faced with frequent database schema changes, which generate the necessity to manage them and preserve the...
Carlo Curino, Hyun Jin Moon, Carlo Zaniolo
BCSHCI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Docile avatars: aesthetics, experience, and sexual interaction in Second Life
Second Life, a participant-created multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), gained sudden media acclaim in 2006. Prior to that, the world was developing many of the characteristics ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell
ECIR
2010
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Extracting Multilingual Topics from Unaligned Comparable Corpora
Topic models have been studied extensively in the context of monolingual corpora. Though there are some attempts to mine topical structure from cross-lingual corpora, they require ...
Jagadeesh Jagarlamudi, Hal Daumé III