Current search engines rely on centralized page ranking algorithms which compute page rank values as single (global) values for each Web page. Recent work on topic-sensitive PageRa...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Daniel Olmedilla, Wolfgang...
We have developed a new powerful group communication system qwikWeb, which is an integration of a WikiWikiWeb (wiki) and a mailing list system. Mailing lists are useful for exchan...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of a programmable imaging system. Such an imaging system provides a human user or a vision system significant control over the radiometric a...
We sketch the fundamental properties and features of Snoopy, a tool to model and execute (animate, simulate) hierarchical graph-based system descriptions. The tool comes along wit...
Free on-line machine translation systems are employed more and more by Internet users. In this paper we have explored the use of these systems for Cross-Language Question Answering...