Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; ...
— Peer-peer networking has recently emerged as a new paradigm for building distributed networked applications. In this paper we develop simple mathematical models to explore and ...
Zihui Ge, Daniel R. Figueiredo, Sharad Jaiswal, Ja...
Recently, there is an interest in using associations between web pages in providing users with pages relevant to what they are currently viewing. We believe that, to enable intell...
The basic idea behind cloud computing is that resource providers offer elastic resources to end users. In this paper, we intend to answer one key question to the success of cloud c...