Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other...
Although distributed object systems, for example RMI and CORBA, enable object-oriented programs to be easily distributed across a network, achieving acceptable performance usually...
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
To understand the performance of modern Java systems one must observe execution in the context of specific architectures. It is also important that we make these observations usi...
J. Eliot B. Moss, Charles C. Weems, Timothy Richar...
The emergence of grid and a new class of data-driven applications is making a new form of parallelism desirable, which we refer to as coarse-grained pipelined parallelism. This pa...