Performance analysis of a distributed question/answering system

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 579-596

  Surdeanu, Mihai ^a,b   Moldovan, Dan I ^a,c   Harabagiu, Sanda M ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Language Computer Corporation   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed question answering; Load balancing; Migration; Partitioning

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM; DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING; INTERQUESTION PARALLELISM; INTRAQUESTION PARALLELISM; TASK PARTITIONING;

DATA HANDLING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING; THROUGHPUT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036612649     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2002.1011413     Document Type: Article

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