Often, independent organizations define and advocate different XML formats for a similar purpose and, as a result, application programs need to mutually convert between such forma...
A deadlock free distributed replication service for B2B CORBA based applications is presented. This service provides persistent storage for commercial transactions performed by B2...
Information extraction (IE) addresses the problem of extracting specific information from a collection of documents. Much of the previous work on IE from structured documents, suc...
Raymond Kosala, Hendrik Blockeel, Maurice Bruynoog...
Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
This paper presents a new pooling method for constructing the assessment sets used in the evaluation of retrieval systems. Our proposal is based on RankBoost, a machine learning v...