We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
ResearchinHumanitiesandSocialSciencesistraditionallybasedonprintedpublicationssuchasmanuscripts, personal correspondence, first editions and other types of documents which are oft...
Michele Nucci, Michele Barbera, Christian Morbidon...
Problem localization is a critical part of providing crucial system management capabilities to modern distributed environments. One key open challenge is for problem localization ...
Rui Zhang, Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Alan Bivens, S...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
Data is routinely created, disseminated, and processed in distributed systems that span multiple administrative domains. To maintain accountability while the data is transformed b...