—An increasing amount of data produced nowadays is in RDF format. While significant work has been performed on view selection and query optimization algorithms in relational dat...
The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
Using Web information in example-based dialogue systems is considered to be a good way to increase the topical relevance of system responses. However, Web content is mostly written...
Crowdsourcing is emerging as a wellspring of creative designs. This paper examines the mechanisms that support collective design. A sequential combination system is described: one ...
Variable selection problems are typically addressed under a penalized optimization framework. Nonconvex penalties such as the minimax concave plus (MCP) and smoothly clipped absol...