Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Abstract. We present a dialogue system that enables the access in natural language to a web information retrieval system. We use a Web Semantic Language to model the knowledge conv...
The problem of consistently engineering large, complex software systems of today is often addressed by introducing new, "improved" models. Examples of such models are arc...
Secret sharing algorithms have been used for intrusion tolerance, which ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical information. However, dynamically changi...
Model checking software transactional memories (STMs) is difficult because of the unbounded number, length, and delay of concurrent transactions and the unbounded size of the memo...