Comparing retrieval approaches requires test collections, which consist of documents, queries and relevance assessments. Obtaining consistent and exhaustive relevance assessments ...
In today’s global village, it is critical that the key information tools, such as web search engines, e-Commerce portals and e-Governance, work across multiple natural languages,...
Abstract. In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in Javabased volunteer computing systems, which aim to make it possible to build very large parallel computing network...
The NetSolve project, underway at the University of Tennessee and at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, allows users to access computational resources distributed across the netwo...
Abstract. In this paper we introduce the concept of knowledge granularity and study its influence on an agent's action selection process. Action selection is critical to an ag...