During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
Recently technological advances now enable time-gated acquisitions of photons at very fast rates. This can allow one to separate scattered and unscattered photons in transillumina...
Web services technologies enable flexible and dynamic interoperation of autonomous software and information systems. A central challenge is the development of modeling techniques ...
Message aggregation can be used to reduce the communication overhead in a network where many messages have the “same” content. However, it may make the network less secure bec...
Virtual labs enable field specific experiments and open them for collaborative and distributed usage. In order to realize comprehensive laboratory set-ups providing a scientifi...