The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
Translation of proper names is generally recognized as a significant problem in many multi-lingual text and speech processing applications. Even when large bilingual lexicons use...
We study the design of truthful mechanisms that do not use payments for the generalized assignment problem (GAP) and its variants. An instance of the GAP consists of a bipartite g...
Abstract. We classify component-based models of computation into component models and interface models. A component model speci es for each component how the component behaves in a...
—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...