The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
Abstract. With the 802.11 WLAN multimedia applications (Video, Audio, realtime voice over IP,...) increasing, providing Quality of Service (QoS) support becomes very important sinc...
Issam Jabri, Nicolas Krommenacker, Thierry Divoux,...
With dramatic improvements in cost-performance, the use of clusters of personal computers is fast becoming widespread. For ease of use and management, a Single System Image (SSI) ...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) bring the promise of increased availability of data to wide-area systems, under the assumption of uniform request load. However, they don't int...
An important scheduling problem is the one in which there are no dependencies between tasks and the tasks can be of arbitrary size. This is known as the divisible load scheduling ...