Coreference systems are driven by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a simple approach which completely modularizes these three aspects. In contrast to muc...
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
We consider a network of control systems connected over a graph. Considering the graph structure as constraints on the set of permissible controllers, we show that such systems ar...
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database systems that can be used in small devices such as sensors, cellular phones, PDAs, car navigator...
-- Assessing the value of individual users' contributions in peer-production systems is paramount to the design of mechanisms that support collaboration and improve users'...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Flavio Figueiredo, Jussara M. ...
Executing critical systems often rely on humans to make important and sometimes life-critical decisions. As such systems become more complex, the potential for human error to lead...
Lori A. Clarke, Leon J. Osterweil, George S. Avrun...
Abstract--In distributed embedded systems operated by battery, energy management is a critical issue that has to be addressed at different architecture levels. For systems that tig...
Gianluca Franchino, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
Abstract. Policies are declarations of constraints on the behaviour of components within distributed systems, and are often used to capture norms within agent-based systems. A few ...
Murat Sensoy, Timothy J. Norman, Wamberto Weber Va...
The design and implementation of distributed, self-organising and self-adaptive systems are challenging. In this article we report on our experience gained during the development o...