Several innovative software applications such as those required by ambient intelligence, the semantic grid, e-commerce and e-marketing, can be viewed as open societies of heteroge...
This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
This paper presents a new model for mobile processes in occam-π. A process, embedded anywhere in a dynamically evolving network, may suspend itself mid-execution, be safely discon...
In this paper we investigate the retrieval of semantic events that occur in broadcast sports footage. We do so by considering the spatio-temporal behaviour of an object in the foot...
Abstract. This paper describes an experimental investigation of interactive techniques for cross-language information access. The task was to answer factual questions from a large ...
Daqing He, Jianqiang Wang, Jun Luo, Douglas W. Oar...