We present a framework for applying memoization selectively. The framework provides programmer control over equality, space usage, and identification of precise dependences so tha...
Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and heavy re...
A significant part of the call processing software for Lucent's new PathStar access server [FSW98] was checked with automated formal verification techniques. The verification...
This work presents a general rank-learning framework for passage ranking within Question Answering (QA) systems using linguistic and semantic features. The framework enables query...
Matthew W. Bilotti, Jonathan L. Elsas, Jaime G. Ca...
Among the retrieval models that have been proposed in the last years, the ESA model of Gabrilovich and Markovitch received much attention. The authors report on a significant imp...