Abstract. A main problem for electronic commerce, particularly for businessto-business applications, lies in the need for the involved information systems to meaningfully exchange ...
Spoken document retrieval (SDR) has been extensively studied in recent years because of its potential use in navigating large multimedia collections in the near future. This paper...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...
We propose a hierarchical, unsupervised clustering algorithm (TreeGCS) based upon the Growing Cell Structure (GCS) neural network of Fritzke. Our algorithm improves an inconsisten...
Modern applications demand support for a large number of clients and require large scale storage subsystems. This paper presents a theoretical model of prefetching and caching of s...