There has been recent interest in the problem of decoding letter substitution ciphers using techniques inspired by natural language processing. We consider a different type of cla...
We consider the problem of combining ranking results from various sources. In the context of the Web, the main applications include building meta-search engines, combining ranking...
Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor, D. Sivakumar
We present new results on Cartesian trees with applications in range minimum queries and bottleneck edge queries. We introduce a cache-oblivious Cartesian tree for solving the ran...
This paper is devoted to sequential decision problems with imprecise probabilities. We study the problem of determining an optimal strategy according to the Hurwicz criterion in de...
We extend Fagin’s result on the equivalence between functional dependencies in relational databases and propositional Horn clauses. It is shown that this equivalence still holds...