Ad-hoc data exchange, e.g., by sending email attachments, leads to multiple copies or versions of a document at dispersed nodes in a network. However, their relationships such as ...
Abstract-- Service discovery enables users to access information, resources and services anytime, anywhere. This involves a client, a service provider and an infrastructure for ser...
Organizations are increasingly turning to spoken dialog systems for automated call routing to reduce call center costs. To maintain quality service even in cases of failure, these...
Abstract. Knowledge management solutions relying on central repositories sometimes have not met expectations, since users often create knowledge ad-hoc using their individual vocab...
Christoph Tempich, Marc Ehrig, Christiaan Fluit, P...
Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...