When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
File sharing using peer-to-peer (p2p) systems is a major Internet application and the leading source of network traffic today. However, the dominance of p2p systems for file sha...
Demetres Antoniades, Evangelos P. Markatos, Consta...
The cultural heritage domain dealing with digital surrogates of rare and fragile historic artifacts is one of the most promising areas for establishing collaboratories, i.e. shared...
The high bandwidth and low latency of the modern internet has made possible the deployment of distributed computing platforms. The XenoServer platform provides a distributed compu...
David Spence, Jon Crowcroft, Steven Hand, Timothy ...
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...