The promise of component-based software development is that larger, more complex systems can be built reasonably quickly and reliably from pre-fabricated ("off-the-shelf"...
In [Jegou, 1993], a decomposition method has been introduced for improving search efficiency in the area of Constraint Satisfaction Problems. This method is based on properties of...
The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and au...
Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
We describe our first participation in TREC. We only competed in the Question Answering (QA) category and limited our runs to factoids. Our approach was to use our open domain QA ...
Dmitri Roussinov, Yin Ding, Jose Antonio Robles-Fl...
-- A main prerequisite for the successful development of real-time systems is the capability for debugging and monitoring of these systems. The debugging of real-time systems is mo...