Sheffield's participation in the inaugural Arabic cross language track is described here. Our goal was to examine how well one could achieve retrieval of Arabic text with the...
Computing is moving toward a pervasive context-aware environment in which agents with limited resources will require external support to help them become context-aware. In this pa...
Despite the importance of the management of inventory in industrial scheduling applications, there has been little research that has addressed reasoning about inventory directly a...
: This paper presents an overview over parallel architectures for the efficient realisation of digital libraries by considering image databases as an example. The state of the art ...
Abstract. In this paper we present two improvements to the partitioning process: 1) A new dynamic bu er management strategy is employed to increase the average block size of I/O-tr...