We present the basic concepts of experimental design, the types of goals it can address, and why it is such an important and useful tool for simulation. A well-designed experiment...
As a user attention has become a precious resource, a special care has to be taken to reduce the time needed for answering queries in P2P networks. Existing solutions are usually ...
The huge amount of the available information in the Web creates the need of effective information extraction systems that are able to produce metadata that satisfy user's inf...
Abstract Trickle is a an extension to the Python programming language that provides explicit but simple mechanisms to write distributed scripts and programs. Trickle links together...
In this paper, we propose a novel method to infer the web user’s Information Content (IC), which is the information that the user must examine to complete her task. In particula...