Geographic Information Systems (GISs) have become an essential tool for efficient handling of our natural and artificial environment. The most important activities in a GIS are qu...
IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
We demonstrate NetTrails, a declarative platform for maintaining and interactively querying network provenance in a distributed system. Network provenance describes the history an...
Wenchao Zhou, Qiong Fei, Shengzhi Sun, Tao Tao, An...
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
An unstructured peer network application was proposed to address the query forwarding problem of distributed search engines and scalability limitations of centralized search engin...