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SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
A formal study of information retrieval heuristics
Empirical studies of information retrieval methods show that good retrieval performance is closely related to the use of various retrieval heuristics, such as TF-IDF weighting. On...
Hui Fang, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai
PDCAT
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Incorporating Security Requirements into Communication Protocols in Multi-agent Software Systems
A communication protocol is a fundamental component of a multi-agent system. The security requirements for a communication protocol should be articulated during the early stages o...
Yuxiu Luo, Giannakis Antoniou, Leon Sterling
FM
1997
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Consistent Graphical Specification of Distributed Systems
: The widely accepted possible benefits of formal methods on the one hand and their minor use compared to informal or graphical description techniques on the other hand have repeat...
Franz Huber, Bernhard Schätz, Geralf Einert
INTERACTION
2009
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
RoboEarth: connecting robots worldwide
In this paper, we present the core concept and the benefits of an approach called RoboEarth which will be highly beneficial for future robotic applications in science and industry...
Oliver Zweigle, René van de Molengraft, Raf...
ESOP
2012
Springer
12 years 3 months ago
Reasoning about Lock Placements
A lock placement describes, for each heap location, which lock guards the location, and under what circumstances. We formalize methods for reasoning about lock placements, making p...
Peter Hawkins, Alex Aiken, Kathleen Fisher, Martin...