The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...
— In this paper, we consider the time-slotted ALOHA packetized multiple-access system where the transmission channels obey i.i.d (independent identically distributed) Rayleigh fa...
Every time a user engaged in work reads or writes, the user spontaneously generates new information needs: to understand the text he or she is reading or to supply more substance ...
David A. Evans, Gregory Grefenstette, Yan Qu, Jame...
The recent design shift towards multicore processors has spawned a significant amount of research in the area of program parallelization. The future abundance of cores on a singl...
Michael L. Chu, Rajiv A. Ravindran, Scott A. Mahlk...
— Sharing personal information and documents is pervasive in Web 2.0 environments, which creates the need for properly controlling shared data. Most existing authorization and po...
Nitya Vyas, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini, Chih-Cheng C...