NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems are common in real life. Due to their intractability, local search algorithms are often used to solve such problems. Since these algori...
We present a method for testing subject’s performance in a realistic (end-to-end) information understanding task— rapid understanding of large document collections—and discu...
The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Management of grid resource information is a challenging and important area considering the potential size of the grid and wide range of resources that should be represented. Thou...
Beth Plale, C. Jacobs, Scott Jensen, Ying Liu, C. ...
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...