Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
The fundamental difference between standard information retrieval and XML retrieval is the unit of retrieval. In traditional IR, the unit of retrieval is fixed: it is the comple...
Jaap Kamps, Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke, Bö...
Performance measurement of large distributed multiagent systems (MAS) offers challenges that must be addressed explicitly in the agent infrastructure. Performance data is widely d...
Aaron Helsinger, Richard Lazarus, William Wright, ...
This paper presents a requirements engineering framework based on the notions of Actor, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, and applies it to a case study in the field of Informatio...
We set out to examine whether current, DRM-based online offerings of music and movies accord with consumers’ current expectations regarding the personal use of copyrighted works...