Modern distributed information retrieval techniques require accurate knowledge of collection size. In non-cooperative environments, where detailed collection statistics are not av...
Abstract. Partial redundancy elimination (PRE) is a program transformation that identifies and eliminates expressions that are redundant on at least one (but not necessarily all) ...
Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
This report will present a collection of tools that supports the precise definition, careful analysis, and execution of processes that coordinate the actions of humans, automated d...
Leon J. Osterweil, Lori A. Clarke, George S. Avrun...
At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...