Knowledge about the workload is an important aspect for scheduling of resources as parallel computers or Grid components. As the scheduling quality highly depends on the character...
In this paper, we illustrate a model-based approach to Web server performance evaluation, and present an analytic queueing model of Web servers in distributed environments. Perfor...
While numerous metrics for information retrieval are available in the case of binary relevance, there is only one commonly used metric for graded relevance, namely the Discounted ...
Olivier Chapelle, Donald Metlzer, Ya Zhang, Pierre...
In this paper we review the evaluation of relevance feedback methods for content-based image retrieval systems. We start out by presenting an overview of current common practice, ...
In this paper we propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable. The metaphor then can be used as an interface to communicate informatio...