Everyone agrees that security is a problem, ranging from Microsoft to the banks that have been recent victims of rogue traders. What is paradoxical is that there does not seem to ...
Robert Crook, Darrel C. Ince, Luncheng Lin, Bashar...
Almost every application of spreading activation is accompanied by its own set of often heuristic restrictions on the dynamics. We show that in constraint-free scenarios spreading...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of answering top-k queries via materialized views. We provide theoretical guarantees for the adequacy of a view to answer a top-k query, ...
Tree patterns represent important fragments of XPath. In this paper, we show that some classes of tree patterns exhibit such a property that, given a finite number of tree patter...
Assistance to people suffering from cognitive deficiencies in a smart home raises complex issues. Plan recognition is one of them. We propose a formal framework for the recognition...
Bruno Bouchard, Sylvain Giroux, Abdenour Bouzouane