Materialized views offer opportunities for significant performance gain in query evaluation by providing fast access to pre-computed data. The question of when and how to use a ma...
Main stream approaches in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) are essentially logic-based. Little has been reported to explore probabilistic approach in DAI. On the other han...
This paper reflects different understanding and positions on future trends of GRID-oriented technologies, applications, and networks, as perceived by representatives from industry...
Petre Dini, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Mark Potts, Alexand...
In this paper, we assess the impact of using thesaurus-based query expansion methods, at the Information Retrieval (IR) stage of a Question Answering (QA) system. We focus on expan...
Where Information Retrieval (IR) and Text Categorization delivers a set of (ranked) documents according to a query, users of large document collections would rather like to receiv...