Research into large-scale distributed systems often relies on the use of simulation frameworks in order to bypass the disadvantages of performing experiments on real testbeds. SimG...
This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. We specifically address computationa...
Larry Huston, Alex Nizhner, Padmanabhan Pillai, Ra...
This paper describes our participation at the GeoCLEF 2005 task. We detail the main software components of our Geo-IR system, its adaptation for the participation at GeoCLEF and d...
Nuno Cardoso, Bruno Martins, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
The reasoning tasks that can be performed with semantic web service descriptions depend on the quality of the domain ontologies used to create these descriptions. However, buildin...
Marta Sabou, Chris Wroe, Carole A. Goble, Gilad Mi...
Traditional models of information retrieval assume documents are independently relevant. But when the goal is retrieving diverse or novel information about a topic, retrieval mode...