Abstract. The sharing of content by communities of users (e.g., scientists) in a P2P context remains cumbersome. We argue that main reasons for this is the lack of calculus and alg...
Abstract. In focussed XML retrieval, a retrieval unit is an XML element that not only contains information relevant to a user query, but also is specific to the query. INEX defin...
In recent years, the subject of occlusion culling of large 3D environments has received substantial contribution. However the major amount of research into the area has focussed o...
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Flexible and dynamic environments are characterized by high independence from connection participants, low control over available services and high tolerance to communication fail...