Information retrieval or search plays an important role in a wide range of information management and electronic commerce tasks. In spite of the importance of information retrieva...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Susan T. Dumais, Jean Scholtz,...
Modeling ranked data is an essential component in a number of important applications including recommendation systems and websearch. In many cases, judges omit preference among un...
—With the advent of Cloud computing, large-scale virtualized compute and data centers are becoming common in the computing industry. These distributed systems leverage commodity ...
Gregor von Laszewski, Lizhe Wang, Andrew J. Younge...
We address the issue of measuring storage, or query load distribution fairness in peer-to-peer data management systems. Existing metrics may look promising from the point of view ...
An extensive literature research in the fields of IT and business science reveals that service-related terms as service and e-service have multiple interpretations within busines...