In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
We consider the problem of tag prediction in collaborative tagging systems where users share and annotate resources on the Web. We put forward HAMLET, a novel approach to automatic...
Adriana Budura, Sebastian Michel, Philippe Cudr&ea...
Performance prediction has gained increasing attention in the IR field since the half of the past decade and has become an established research topic in the field. The present work...
Abstract Even the best information retrieval model cannot always identify the most useful answers to a user query. This is in particular the case with web search systems, where it ...
The technique called progressive encryption is used in many areas of content security. However, the plain algorithm itself is only applicable in real transmission scenarios where n...