Prior studies have suggested that a good Website design which facilitates a user's Web browsing behaviour would generally lead to better user performance. In this research, w...
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
In this paper, we present a locking-based concurrency control scheme for object-oriented databases (OODBs). Our scheme deals with class hierarchy which is an important property in...
A recent theoretical investigation of modular representations shows that certain modularizations can introduce a distance bias into a landscape. This was a static analysis, and em...
R. Paul Wiegand, Gautham Anil, Ivan I. Garibay, Oz...
State-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (P2P IR) systems suffer from their lack of response time guarantee especially with scale. To address this issue, a number of tec...
Christian Zimmer, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Gerhard We...