This workshop attempted to present the state-of-the-art in multilingual information access (MLIA) research and development, including cross-language information retrieval and ques...
This position paper1 discusses reconfigurability issues in low-power handheld multimedia systems. A reconfigurable systems-architecture is introduced, with a focus on a Field Progr...
Paul M. Heysters, Jaap Smit, Gerard J. M. Smit, Pa...
We observe that existing methods for failure-tolerance are inefficient in their use of time, storage and computational resources. We aim to harness the power of idle desktop compu...
The concept of Personal Information Management (PIM) is currently a hot topic of research. Some of the ideas being discussed under this topic have a long history, and they are rele...
Abstract--This position paper describes the challenges related to federated enterprise search over heterogeneous product information sources. It focuses on the aspect of finding re...