Message ordering is a fundamental abstraction in distributed systems. However, ordering guarantees are usually purely "syntactic," that is, message "semantics" ...
—With the advent of the Internet, searching for information became a fundamental part of our daily computing. When large storage devices were integrated to our personal computers...
Personalization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our daily online experience. While such technology is critical for helping us combat the overload of information we face, in many cas...
Abstract. Dealing with methods of Human-Robot-Interaction and using a real mobile robot, stable methods for people detection and tracking are fundamental features of such a system ...
The TREC-8 Question Answering (QA) Track was the first large-scale evaluation of domain-independent question answering systems. In addition to fostering research on the QA task, ...