The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Robustness, through fault tolerance, is a property often put forward in order to advocate MAS. The question is: What is the first step to be fault tolerant? Obviously the answer i...
Katia Potiron, Patrick Taillibert, Amal El Fallah-...
It is well established that there is a need to find experts to get answers or advice. A variety of expertise locator tools have emerged to help locate the right person. But there ...
—This paper demonstrates the use of a model-based evaluation approach for instrumentation systems (ISs). The overall objective of this study is to provide early feedback to tool ...
Abdul Waheed, Diane T. Rover, Jeffrey K. Hollingsw...