Answer patterns have been shown to improve the performance of open-domain factoid QA systems. Their use, however, requires either constructing the patterns manually or developing ...
We consider the problem of gathering data from a wireless multi-hop network of energy-constrained sensor nodes to a common base station. Specifically, we aim to balance the total...
Distributed multi-agent systems require naming services to locate and communicate with remote agents. In this paper we focus on the design and implementation of the “White Pages...
Knowledge portals aim at facilitating the location, sharing and dissemination of information by sitting ontologies at the core of the system. For heterogeneous environments where c...
Defining the ways for components around the world to collaborate with each other to execute applications over the internet is one of the biggest challenges for computer scientists...