: This paper describes a method aiming to support the design of interactive-safety critical systems. The method proposes an original integration of approaches usually considered se...
In this paper we present a theoretical model for understanding the performance of Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) search and retrieval applications. Many models for understanding L...
: As more third-party software components are available in the commercial market, more people begin to use the component-based software engineering approach to developing component...
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-con...
Supercomputer performance is highly dependent on its interconnection subsystem design. In this paper we study how di erent architectural approaches for router design impact into s...