: Search engines--"web dragons"--are the portals through which we access society's treasure trove of information. They do not publish the algorithms they use to sort...
We study how best to schedule scans of large data files, in the presence of many simultaneous requests to a common set of files. The objective is to maximize the overall rate of p...
The robot described in this paper learns words that relate to objects and their attributes and also learns concepts, which may be recursive, that involve relationships between sev...
Requirements interdependencies create technical dependencies among project members that generally belong to different functional groups in an organization, but who need to coordin...
In fall of 2004, we met Jim Gray and began to converse about the data needs of ocean scientists. The conversations ultimately led to the development of a unique portal for explori...