We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
The concept of artificial evolution has been applied to numerous real world applications in different domains. In this paper, we use this concept in the domain of virology to ev...
Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, M. Zubair Shafiq, Mu...
The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
Abstract—Current programming models and compiler technologies for multi-core processors do not exploit well the performance benefits obtainable by applying algorithm-specific, ...
Huimin Cui, Jingling Xue, Lei Wang, Yang Yang, Xia...