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ICDE
2008
IEEE
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16 years 8 months ago
PictureBook: A Text-and-Image Summary System for Web Search Result
Search engine technology plays an important role in Web information retrieval. However, with Internet information explosion, traditional searching techniques cannot provide satisfa...
Baile Shi, Guoyu Hao, Hongtao Xu, Mei Wang, Qi Zha...
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
15 years 12 months ago
Access Control to Information in Pervasive Computing Environments
Many types of information available in a pervasive computing environment, such as people location information, should be accessible only by a limited set of people. Some propertie...
Urs Hengartner, Peter Steenkiste
CONCUR
1992
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The Duality of TIme and Information
The states of a computing system bear information and change time, while its events bear time and change information. We develop a primitive algebraic model of this duality of tim...
Vaughan R. Pratt
PDPTA
2003
15 years 8 months ago
Push-Pull Gossiping for Information Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Communities
We expand the scope of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems to include the concept of “communities”. Communities are analogous to interest groups and can overlap. We use communities as ...
Mujtaba Khambatti, Kyung Dong Ryu, Partha Dasgupta
SYNTHESE
2010
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15 years 5 months ago
Informational versus functional theories of scientific representation
Recent work in the philosophy of science has generated an apparent conflict between theories attempting to explicate the nature of scientific representation. On one side, there are...
Anjan Chakravartty