Current weak consistency semantics provide worst-case guarantees to clients. These guarantees fail to adequately describe systems that provide varying levels of consistency in the...
Amitanand S. Aiyer, Eric Anderson, Xiaozhou Li, Me...
—This paper describes a novel framework, called Distributed Partial Information Management (or DPIM). It addresses several major challenges in achieving efficient shared path pr...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...
Dynamic interactive visualisations (DIVs) are intended to help coordination and collaboration, through augmenting existing forms of synchronous communication (i.e. phones, face to...