Web search is the main way for millions of users to access information every day, but we continue to struggle when it comes to finding the right information at the right time. In ...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
Historical information can be effectively preserved using XML and searched through powerful historical queries written in XQuery. Indeed, by storing the successive versions of a d...
Fusheng Wang, Carlo Zaniolo, Xin Zhou, Hyun J. Moo...
We address how to write programs for distributed computing systems in which the network topology can change dynamically. Examples of such systems, which we call ensembles, include ...
Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Peter Lee, Seth Copen G...
Any finite tree automaton (or regular type) can be used to construct act interpretation of a logic program, by first determinising and completing the automaton to get a pre-inter...
John P. Gallagher, Kim S. Henriksen, Gourinath Ban...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...