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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures
Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
Mark D. Smucker, Charles L. A. Clarke
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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16 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Communication Cost in Distributed Multi-query Processing
Increasing prevalence of large-scale distributed monitoring and computing environments such as sensor networks, scientific federations, Grids etc., has led to a renewed interest in...
Jian Li, Amol Deshpande, Samir Khuller
ICDE
2006
IEEE
178views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
16 years 5 months ago
Characterizing and Exploiting Reference Locality in Data Stream Applications
In this paper, we investigate a new approach to process queries in data stream applications. We show that reference locality characteristics of data streams could be exploited in ...
Feifei Li, Ching Chang, George Kollios, Azer Besta...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
PODS
2009
ACM
229views Database» more  PODS 2009»
16 years 5 months ago
Computing all skyline probabilities for uncertain data
Skyline computation is widely used in multi-criteria decision making. As research in uncertain databases draws increasing attention, skyline queries with uncertain data have also ...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Yinian Qi