Abstract. Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, no...
We propose to address collective communications in distributed components through collective interfaces. Collective interfaces handle data distribution, parallelism and synchroniz...
This paper shows that Appel-style garbage collectors often make suboptimal decisions both in terms of when and how to collect. We argue that garbage collection should be done when ...
In this paper, we describe a method of generating link collections in a user-specified category by comprehensively collecting existing link collections and analyzing their hyperli...
In order to evaluate the performance of information retrieval and extraction algorithms, we need test collections. A test collection consists of a set of documents, a clearly form...