Developing a general component system for a statically typed, object-oriented language is a challenging design problem for two reasons. First, mutually recursive references across...
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
We consider the following full-text search autocompletion feature. Imagine a user of a search engine typing a query. Then with every letter being typed, we would like an instant d...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
This article describes the use of the medGIFT and easyIR retrieval systems for three of the four ImageCLEF 2005 retrieval tasks. We participated in the ad–hoc retrieval task that...