Distributed cooperative engineering applications require consistent and long-term sharing of large volumes of data, which may cause conflicts due to concurrent read/write operatio...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
An important goal of most empirical software engineering research is the transfer of research results to industrial applications. Two important obstacles for this transfer are the...
Mining software engineering data has emerged as a successful research direction over the past decade. In this position paper, we advocate Software Intelligence (SI) as the future ...
-- Searching for medical information on the Web is popular and important. However, medical search has its own unique requirements that are poorly handled by existing medical Web se...