— Scientific computing often requires the availability of a massive number of computers for performing large scale experiments. Traditionally, these needs have been addressed by ...
We introduce the aggregating cache, and demonstrate how it can be used to reduce the number of file retrieval requests made by a caching client, improving storage system performan...
Distributed multiuser hypermedia environments provide not only information sharing mechanisms but also user collaboration/ communication facilities. The provision of integrated vi...
In contrast to classical databases and IR systems, real-world information systems have to deal increasingly with very vague and diverse structures for information management and s...
Xuan Zhou, Julien Gaugaz, Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgan...
We present a strategy for answering fact-based natural language questions that is guided by a characterization of realworld user queries. Our approach, implemented in a system cal...