Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
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One of the most difficult problems that humanity currently faces is the sustainable development of our society, i.e. how to meet the needs of the present without compromising the...
Jordi Cabot, Steve M. Easterbrook, Jennifer Horkof...
Thread escape analysis, which determines whether and when a variable becomes shared by multiple threads, is a foundation for many other program analyses. Most existing escape anal...
Today’s complex production systems allow to simultaneously build different products following individual production plans. Such plans may fail due to component faults or unfores...
Biodiversity informatics (BDI) information is both highly localized and highly distributed. The temporal and spatial contexts of data collection events are generally of primary imp...