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IQ
1996
15 years 7 months ago
A TQM Approach to the Improvement of Information Quality
There is a consistent gap between users expectations regarding Information Quality (IQ) and the perceived quality of the information they are using. An explicit approach to IQ is ...
Ron Dvir, Stephen Evans
AAAI
2008
15 years 8 months ago
The Impact of Vertical Specialization on Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
Hierarchies are one of the most common organizational structures observed in multi-agent systems. In this paper we study vertical specialization as a reason for hierarchical struc...
Steven Okamoto, Paul Scerri, Katia P. Sycara
WIDM
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Specialisation dynamics in federated web search
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
ICCSA
2004
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
A Market-Based Scheduler for JXTA-Based Peer-to-Peer Computing System
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing is said to be the next wave of computing after client-server and web-based computing. It provides an opportunity to harness a lot of idle peer-resource...
Tan Tien Ping, Gian Chand Sodhy, Chan Huah Yong, F...
C3S2E
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
The promise of solid state disks: increasing efficiency and reducing cost of DBMS processing
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
Karsten Schmidt 0002, Yi Ou, Theo Härder