We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual "information synthesis" task, where, for a given t...
The management of non-functional goals, or Service Level Agreements (SLA), in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture often requires much manual a...
Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Phil Coulthar...
Increasingly, public transportation systems are equipped with Global Positioning Systems (GPS) connected to control centers through wireless networks. Controllers use this infrast...
The Mobile Agents model-based, distributed architecture, which integrates diverse components in a system for lunar and planetary surface operations, was extensively tested in a tw...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Rich Alena, ...
It has frequently been observed that most of the world’s data lies outside database systems. The reason is that database systems focus on structured data, leaving the unstructur...
Alon Y. Halevy, Oren Etzioni, AnHai Doan, Zachary ...