One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
: The memory management of distributed objects, when done manually, is an error-prone task. It leads to memory leaks and dangling references, causing applications to fail. Avoiding...
Netcharts have been introduced recently by Mukund et al. in [17]. This new appealing approach to the specification of collections of message sequence charts (MSCs) benefits from ...
We describe the Open Mind Initiative, a framework for large-scale collaborative efforts in building components of "intelligent" systems that address common-sense reasoni...
Metadata for the World Wide Web is important, but metadata for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks is absolutely crucial. In this paper we discuss the open source project Edutella which b...