Agent-based participatory simulations are laboratory experiments designed like agent-based simulations and where humans access the simulation as software agents. This paper descri...
: This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-ten...
Opinion retrieval is a document retrieval process, which requires documents to be retrieved and ranked according to their opinions about a query topic. A relevant document must sa...
This paper describes the participation of MIRACLE research consortium at the Query Parsing task of GeoCLEF 2007. Our system is composed of three main modules. First, the Named Geo...
We consider the two-dimensional Range Minimum Query problem: for a static (m × n)-matrix of size N = mn which may be preprocessed, answer on-line queries of the form “where is t...