The core of our question-answering mechanism is searching for predefined patterns of textual expressions that may be interpreted as answers to certain types of questions. The pres...
This paper describes the work we have been done in the last year on the DIOGENE Question Answering system developed at ITC-Irst. We present two preliminary experiments showing the...
A critical aspect of semiconductor manufacturing is the design and analysis of material handling and production control polices to optimize fab performance. As wafer sizes have in...
As part of the new security environment at the nation's airports, discrete event simulation modeling was applied shortly after 9-11 to understand the operational dynamics of ...
David R. Pendergraft, Craig V. Robertson, Shelly S...
Scalability is the primary challenge to studying large complex network systems with network emulation. This paper studies topology partitioning, assigning disjoint pieces of the n...
Ken Yocum, Ethan Eade, Julius Degesys, David Becke...