Research on Question Answering has produced an arsenal of useful techniques for detecting answers that are explicitly present in the text of a collection of documents. To move bey...
Reinhard Stolle, Daniel G. Bobrow, Cleo Condoravdi...
Given a query point and a collection of spatial features, a multi-type nearest neighbor (MTNN) query finds the shortest tour for the query point such that only one instance of eac...
Data storage has become an important issue in sensor networks as a large amount of collected data need to be archived for future information retrieval. This paper introduces stora...
Large-scale and dynamically changing distributed systems such as the Grid, peer-to-peer overlays, etc., need to collect several kinds of global statistics in a decentralized manne...
We present the Ka-admin project that addresses the problem of collecting, visualizing and feeding back any grid information, trace or snapshot, compliant to an XML-like model. Rea...