Grid applications need efficient access to information about available resources and services. Typically, this access is provided by information services that are often organized ...
Protocols which solve agreement problems are essential building blocks for fault tolerant distributed applications. While many protocols have been published, little has been done ...
How important is a particular object in a photograph of a complex scene? We propose a definition of importance and present two methods for measuring object importance from human o...
This paper presents the results of the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) in the Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual tasks at CLEF 2004. For these tasks we used an approach ba...
We have aligned Japanese and English news articles and sentences to make a large parallel corpus. We first used a method based on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) to a...