Participatory search can be defined as a search service framework where each participant takes care of gathering information and contributing indexes to a central location where t...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Lucian Hancu, Mari...
In this paper, we describe an approach to modelling contextaware systems starting on the knowledge level. We make use of ideas from Activity Theory to structure the general contex...
We address the task of problem determination in a distributed system using probes, or test transactions, which gather information about system components. Effective probing requir...
Mark Brodie, Irina Rish, Sheng Ma, Natalia Odintso...
Passive NFS traces provide an easy and unobtrusive way to measure, analyze, and gain an understanding of an NFS workload. Historically, such traces have been used primarily by fil...
This article advocates a new model for inductive learning. Called sequential induction, it helps bridge classical fixed-sample learning techniques (which are efficient but difficu...