ISAS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Restart is an application-level mechanism to speed up the completion of tasks that are subject to failures or unpredictable delays. In this paper we investigate if restart can be b...
ISAS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Analytical and simulative modeling for dependability and performance evaluation has been proven to be a useful and versatile approach in all the phases of the system life cycle. I...
ISAS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
A ubiquitous computing system derives its operations from the collective interactions of its constituent components. Consequently, a robust ubiquitous system entails that the discr...
ISAS
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper describes the architectures that can be used to build highly available database management systems. We describe these architectures along two dimensions – process redu...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper describes the evaluation of the XFIRM system in INEX 2004 framework. The XFIRM system uses a relevance propagation method to answer queries composed of content condition...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. The widespread adoption of XML necessitates structureaware systems that can effectively retrieve information from XML document collections. This paper reports on the par...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Can a system designed primarily for the purpose of databasetype storage and retrieval be used for information-retrieval tasks? This was one of the questions that led us t...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
We describe the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a mixture l...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
This paper discusses our participation in INEX using the TIJAH XML-IR system. We have enriched the TIJAH system, which follows a standard layered database architecture, with severa...
INEX
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2004
Springer
Queries over XML documents challenge search engines to return the most relevant XML components that satisfy the query concepts. In a previous work[6] we described an algorithm to ...