Metadata IR model has high precision and low recall because the query in Metadata IR model is strict that is, the query can express user information need exactly, while Full-text I...
Abstract. One of the first motivations of using grids comes from applications managing large data sets like for example in High Energy Physic or Life Sciences. To improve the glob...
Frederic Desprez, Antoine Vernois, Christophe Blan...
Automated negotiation by software agents is a key enabling technology for agent mediated e-commerce. To this end, this paper considers an important class of such negotiations — ...
We introduce Shear, a user-level software tool that characterizes RAID storage arrays. Shear employs a set of controlled algorithms combined with statistical techniques to automat...
Timothy E. Denehy, John Bent, Florentina I. Popovi...
Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...