In distributed IT systems, replication of information is commonly used to strengthen the fault tolerance on a technical level or the autonomy of an organization on a business level...
Abstract. The following paper describes recent work on NED-2, an intelligent information system for ecosystem management currently in development by the USDA Forest Service. Using ...
Frederick Maier, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Ji...
This paper describes a novel approach of improving multi-document summarization based on cross-document information extraction (IE). We describe a method to automatically incorpora...
Many peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been widely used for file sharing. A peer acts both as a content provider and a consumer, and is granted autonomy to decide what content, wit...
The positive region in rough set framework and Shannon conditional entropy are two traditional uncertainty measurements, used usually as heuristic metrics in attribute reduction. ...