On-demand routing protocols use route caches to make routing decisions. Due to frequent topology changes, cached routes easily become stale. To address the cache staleness issue i...
This paper presents a modification of GLADE —the current GNAT implementation of the Ada 95 Distributed Systems Annex (DSA)— to support the development of distributed applicatio...
Component middleware provides dependable and efficient platforms that support key functional, and quality of service (QoS) needs of distributed real-time embedded (DRE) systems. C...
As with any application of machine learning, web search ranking requires labeled data. The labels usually come in the form of relevance assessments made by editors. Click logs can...
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...