Software services are being promoted as the next big step forward in software engineering.. Inevitably, both service vendor and service client programs will require maintenance. W...
Device Locks are mechanisms used in distributed environments to facilitate mutual exclusion of shared resources. They can further be used to maintain coherence of data that is cac...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Steven R. Soltis, Christopher ...
We propose an efficient and flexible system for a secure and authentic data exchange in a multiinstitutional environment, where the institutions maintain different databases and p...
Arne Ansper, Ahto Buldas, Margus Freudenthal, Jan ...
This paper provides an overview of experiments carried out at the TREC 2004 Terabyte Track using the Indri search engine. Indri is an efficient, effective distributed search engin...
Donald Metzler, Trevor Strohman, Howard R. Turtle,...
Multi-word terms are traditionally identified using statistical techniques or, more recently, using hybrid techniques combining statistics with shallow linguistic information. Al)...