In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
We consider the problem of retrieving multiple documents relevant to the single subtopics of a given web query, termed “full-subtopic retrieval”. To solve this problem we pres...
Andrea Bernardini, Claudio Carpineto, Massimiliano...
Traders in electronic marketplaces may behave dishonestly, cheating other agents. A multitude of trust and reputation systems have been proposed to try to cope with the problem of...
In this paper, we present a practical experiment of building a service-oriented system upon current web services technologies and bioinformatics middleware. The system allows scie...
Xiaorong Xiang, Gregory R. Madey, Jeanne Romero-Se...
In this paper, we investigate a combination of two techniques — instruction coding and instruction re-ordering — for optimizing energy in embedded processor control. We presen...