We investigate two seemingly incompatible approaches for improving document retrieval performance in the context of question answering: query expansion and query reduction. Querie...
Large classes of autonomic (self-managing, selfhealing) systems can be created by logically integrating simpler autonomic systems. The configuration method is widely used for such...
Sanjai Narain, Thanh Cheng, Brian A. Coan, Vikram ...
The last three decades proved Moore’s Law. We witnessed an exponential increase in processing power, memory capacity and communication bandwidth and we expect this increase to c...
Wolfgang Trumler, Faruk Bagci, Jan Petzold, Theo U...
Speculative pre-execution is a promising prefetching technique which uses an auxiliary assisting thread in addition to the main program flow. A prefetching thread (p-thread), whic...
Abstract— We present a distributed scheme for trust inference in peer-to-peer networks. Our work is in context of the NICE system, which is a platform for implementing cooperativ...