The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Due to the complex nature of scientific workflow environments, temporal violations often take place and may severely reduce the timeliness of the execution’s results. To handle ...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
It is hard to manage the software design documents within a distributed development team. The issues include the format, distribution and evolution of data. This paper mainly focu...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...