Decomposition is a powerful technique for reducing the size of a backtracking search tree. However, when solving constraint optimization problems (COP's) the standard techniqu...
When issuing user-specific queries, users often have a vaguely defined information need. Skyline queries identify the most "interesting" objects for users' incomplet...
We present a framework for component-based design and scheduling of real-time embedded software. Each component has a clearly specified interface that includes the methods used fo...
In this paper, we propose an approach that provides the benefits of isolation in service-oriented applications where it is not feasible to use the traditional locking mechanisms u...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
This paper reports on the annotation of a corpus of 1 million words with four semantic annotation layers, including named entities, coreference relations, semantic roles and spati...