Autonomic Computing is a concept that brings together many fields of computing with the purpose of creating computing systems that self-manage. In it...

Statistical machine translation (SMT) treats the translation of natural language as a machine learning problem. By examining many samples of human-pr...

Trust management systems are frameworks for authorization in modern distributed systems, allowing remotely accessible resources to be protected by pr...

The Internet enables global sharing of data across organizational boundaries. Distributed file systems facilitate data sharing in the form of remote...

Efficient processing of top-k queries is a crucial requirement in many interactive environments that involve massive amounts of data. In particular,...