The first International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) was held on Thursday, March 28th, at ECIR 2024 in Glasgow, UK. The full-day workshop had two calls for contributions: the first call aimed at scientific contributions to building, operating, and ...

We report on our experience with shared-task-based teaching based on 12 undergraduate and master's courses. From the lessons learned in these courses, we derive a novel classification of shared tasks into four classes based on properties of their ...

We integrate irdatasets, ir_measures, and PyTerrier with TIRA in the Information Retrieval Experiment Platform (TIREx) to promote more standardized, reproducible, scalable, and even blinded retrieval experiments. Standardization is achieved when a ...

This paper proposes a decentralized and fault-tolerant software system for the purpose of managing Desktop Grid resources. Its main design principle is to eliminate the need for a centralized server, therefore to remove the single point of failure and ...

In order to perform shared tasks, all the participants in a multi-agent system (MAS) must agree common meanings for their perceptions and actions. Therefore, the basic communication and cooperation must be handled in a different way, mainly because the ...

This paper presents a scheduling technique for guaranteeing end-to-end timing constraints. Applications are structured as a set of tasks which are the sequence of actions to produce an output. Task is decomposed into subtasks and shares subtasks with ...