Today, the choice for a particular programming language limits the alternative products that can be used to deploy the program. The purpose of this work is to break the strong tie...
Focused crawlers are considered as a promising way to tackle the scalability problem of topic-oriented or personalized search engines. To design a focused crawler, the choice of s...
Functional logic programming and probabilistic programming have demonstrated the broad benefits of combining laziness (non-strict evaluation with sharing of the results) with non-...
Sebastian Fischer, Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan
We present a new lossy compressor for discrete sources. For coding a source sequence xn , the encoder starts by assigning a certain cost to each reconstruction sequence. It then f...
While collaboration is a natural choice in many situations, there is a lack of specialized tools for collaboratively seeking information. We present design specifications and impl...