Dependable systems evolution has been identified by the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) as one of the current grand challenges for computer science. We present work toward...
The paper presents a complete framework for spatial indexing support in a distributed setting. We consider a shared-nothing environment where a set of servers provides independent...
This paper formulates in the first part some requirements for a certain sort of computational argumentation systems, namely those which are designed for a very specific purpose: to...
We present an application for accessing and creating socially constructed sets of information. Users store and retrieve information, such as bits of text, through the use of "...
The development of technologies to address machine translation and distillation of multilingual broadcast data depends heavily on the collection of large volumes of material from ...