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Manuel J. Fonseca, Bruno Barroso, Pedro Ribeiro, J...
Pervasive computing refers to an emerging trend towards numerous casually accessible devices connected to an increasingly ubiquitous network infrastructure. An important challenge...
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Irina Botan, Gustavo Alonso, Peter M. Fischer, Don...
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Traditional information retrieval systems use query words to identify relevant documents. In difficult retrieval tasks, however, one needs access to a wealth of background knowled...