ERCIM News 88

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January 2012
Special theme: Evolving Software
Guest editors: Tom Mens (Univ. of Mons) and Jacques Klein (Univ. of Luxembourg)

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Multilingual Information Retrieval: From Research to Practice

Multilingual Information Retrieval: From Research to Practice

Carol Peters, Martin Braschler, Paul Clough

A comprehensive description of the technologies involved in designing and developing systems for Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) is provided. Details on Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) are also covered that help readers to understand how to build systems that cross language boundaries.

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Fundamentals of Grid Computing Theory, Algorithms and Technologies

Frédéric Magoulès

The integration and convergence of state-of-the-art technologies in the grid have enabled more flexible, automatic, and complex grid services to fulfill industrial and commercial needs, from the LHC at CERN to meteorological forecasting systems. Fundamentals of Grid Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Technologies discusses how the novel technologies of semantic web and workflow have been integrated into the grid and grid services.

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