The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
For more than a decade, ontologies have been proposed as a means to enable sharing and reuse of knowledge. While originally relatively narrow information landscapes have been in mi...
We present a new method for dynamically detecting potential data races in multithreaded programs. Our method improves on the state of the art in accuracy, in usability, and in ove...
Dissemination systems are used to route information received from many publishers individually to multiple subscribers. The core of a dissemination system consists of an efficient...
As the complexity of Internet is scaled up, it is likely for the Internet resources to be exposed to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) flooding attacks on TCP-based Web servers....