Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) assist online users in their information-seeking and decision making tasks by supporting an interactive process. Although these processes...
Distributed systems require strategies to detect and recover from failures. Many protocols for distributed systems employ a strategy based on leases, which grant a leaseholder acc...
Scott Rose, Kevin Bowers, Stephen Quirolgico, Kevi...
In this paper, we address a relatively new and interesting text categorization problem: classify a political blog as either liberal or conservative, based on its political leaning...
Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...
Mass causality incidents generate a sequence of response events from the emergency services, requiring the allocation and use of resources in a timely fashion. In this paper we de...
Marcus Lucas da Silva, Vassilis Kostakos, Mitsuji ...