Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever larger problem as the number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. In this paper, we presen...
The TREC 2004 Question Answering track contained a single task in which question series were used to define a set of targets. Each series contained factoid and list questions and ...
Structured P2P systems based on distributed hash tables are a popular choice for building large-scaled data management systems. Generally, they only support exact match queries, b...
Despite the extensiveness of recent investigations on static typing for XML, parametric polymorphism has rarely been treated. This well-established typing discipline can also be u...
The performance of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) often suffers from link-layer frame losses caused by noise, interference, multipath, attenuation, and user mobility. We obs...
Allen K. L. Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, J...