The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...
We present results of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track which focussed on how users behave in interactive search systems. Three types of working tasks based on a collection of book m...
Thomas Beckers, Norbert Fuhr, Nils Pharo, Ragnar N...
The TREC 2003 question answering track contained two tasks, the passages task and the main task. In the passages task, systems returned a single text snippet in response to factoi...
Symmetric shared disks file systems are functional, versatile, and just plain cool. For these file systems to work, they require a global lock space, acessable to all clients. T...
Andrew P. Barry, Mike Tilstra, Matthew T. O'Keefe,...
In order to meet performance/low energy/integration requirements, parallel architectures (multithreaded cores and multi-cores) are more and more considered in the design of embedd...