We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Qualitative spatial reasoning forms an important part of the commonsense reasoning required for building intelligent Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Previous research has c...
In this paper we report experience in the use of computational grids in the domain of natural language processing, particularly in the area of information extraction, to create qu...
One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation fr...
Many real-world graphs have been shown to be scale-free— vertex degrees follow power law distributions, vertices tend to cluster, and the average length of all shortest paths is...