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ECIR
2004
Springer
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Applying the Divergence from Randomness Approach for Content-Only Search in XML Documents
Content-only retrieval of XML documents deals with the problem of locating the smallest XML elements that satisfy the query. In this paper, we investigate the application of a spec...
Mohammad Abolhassani, Norbert Fuhr
ACE
2004
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Managing Large Class Assessment
ExamGen is a software application developed at Queensland University of Technology to assist instructors with assessment in large classes (250+). The ExamGen program was developed...
Anthony Rhodes, Karyn Bower, Peter Bancroft
WSPI
2008
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Symbol Grounding in Computational Systems: A Paradox of Intentions
The paper presents a paradoxical feature of computational systems that suggests that computationalism cannot explain symbol grounding. If the mind is a digital computer, as computa...
Vincent C. Müller
WSPI
2008
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Practices, Systems, and Context Working as Core Concepts in Modeling Socio-Technical Systems
This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Heidrun Allert, Christoph Richter
WSPI
2008
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Possibilities and Limitations of Modeling Trust and Reputation
Abstract. We all highly depend and rely on the trustworthiness of information and services provided by various parties and institutions. Reputation systems are one possibility to s...
Andreas Gutscher, Jessica Heesen, Oliver Siemoneit
WSPI
2008
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ReCollection: a Disposal/Formal Requirement-Based Tool to Support Sustainable Collection Making
Many of our modern computerized activities, may they be personal, industrial or artistic, involve searching, classifying and browsing large numbers of digital objects. The tools w...
Francis Rousseaux, Alain Bonardi, Benjamin Roadley
WSPI
2008
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Semantics of Information as Interactive Computation
Computers today are not only the calculation tools - they are directly (inter)acting in the physical world which itself may be conceived of as the universal computer (Zuse, Fredkin...
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
SIROCCO
2007
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Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks: Balancing Communication and Delay Costs
In a sensor network the sensors, or nodes, obtain data and have to communicate these data to a central node. Because sensors are battery powered they are highly energy constrained....
Peter Korteweg, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Leen...
SIROCCO
2007
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Why Robots Need Maps
Abstract. A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) a...
Miroslaw Dynia, Jakub Lopuszanski, Christian Schin...
SIROCCO
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Design of Minimal Fault Tolerant On-Board Networks: Practical Constructions
Abstract. The problem we consider originates from the design of efficient on-board networks in satellites (also called Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers). Signals incoming in the net...
Jean-Claude Bermond, Frédéric Giroir...