Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a general framework that can model complex problems in multi-agent systems. Several current algorithms that solve general DCOP instan...
Data cleaning is the process of correcting anomalies in a data source, that may for instance be due to typographical errors, or duplicate representations of an entity. It is a cruc...
Software vulnerabilities have been the main contributing factor to the Internet security problems such as fast spreading worms. Among these software vulnerabilities, memory corrup...
In defining large, complex access control policies, one would like to compose sub-policies, perhaps authored by different organizations, into a single global policy. Existing po...
Pseudo-relevance feedback, or query expansion, has been shown to improve retrieval performance in the adhoc retrieval task. In such a scenario, a few top-ranked documents are assu...