We present the universe model,a new approach to concurrencymanagement that isolates concurrency concerns and represents them in the modular interface of a component. This approach...
Question answering systems rely on retrieval components to identify documents that contain an answer to a user’s question. The formulation of queries that are used for retrieving...
The increasing popularity of component-based programming tools offer a big opportunity to designers of advanced programming languages, such as Haskell. If we can package our progr...
Sigbjorn Finne, Daan Leijen, Erik Meijer, Simon L....
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
In this work access support relataons are introduced as a means for optlmizmg query processing m object-oriented database systems The general idea 1s to mamtam redundant separate ...