Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limit...
Byung-Gon Chun, Petros Maniatis, Scott Shenker, Jo...
The research community plays a very important role in holding valuable scientific knowledge. The authors propose a community mining system which helps to find communities of res...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
This paper details the participation of the XLDB group from the University of Lisbon at the GeoCLEF task of CLEF 2006. We tested text mining methods that make use of an ontology t...
Bruno Martins, Nuno Cardoso, Marcirio Silveira Cha...
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...