This paper studies the influence of lexical semantic knowledge upon two related tasks: ad-hoc information retrieval and text similarity. For this purpose, we compare the performa...
In order to ease the development and maintenance of more complex P2P applications, which combine multiple P2P functionality (e.g. streaming and dependable storage), we suggest to ...
Kalman Graffi, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Song Xiao, Ra...
This paper addresses the problem of identifying the value of information held by a teammate on a distributed, multi-agent team. It focuses on a distributed scheduling task in whic...
Distributed information systems are critical to the functioning of many businesses; designing them to be dependable is a challenging but important task. We report our experience i...
Jeremy Bryans, John S. Fitzgerald, Alexander Roman...
Discussion on patient data, among hospital staff, plays an increasingly important role in inter-specialist communication. Effectiveness of a discussion depends, among other factor...