Today, a huge amount of text is being generated for social purposes on social networking services on the Web. Unlike traditional documents, such text is usually extremely short an...
The traditional retrieval models based on term matching are not effective in collections of degraded documents (output of OCR or ASR systems for instance). This paper presents a n...
In this paper we provide a general method to derive productform solutions for stochastic models. We take inspiration from the Reversed Compound Agent Theorem [14] and we provide a...
Researches that have recently investigated the impact of developments in Information Technologies (IT) on human capital in the banking industry analysed only marginally the evolut...
We evaluate the e ect of processor speed, network bandwidth, and software overhead on the performance of release-consistent software distributed shared memory. We examine ve di er...
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, ...