This paper addresses the problem of deciding effectively whether to interrupt a teammate who may have information that is valuable for solving a collaborative scheduling problem. ...
The goal of contextual information retrieval (CIR) is to better meet the user's needs by delivering him information adapted to his specific search context. This paper presents...
We consider segment intersection searching amidst (possibly intersecting) algebraic arcs in the plane. We show how to preprocess n arcs in time O(n2+ ) into a data structure of si...
Background: Protein structure comparison is a fundamental task in structural biology. While the number of known protein structures has grown rapidly over the last decade, searchin...
Lei Zhang, James Bailey, Arun Siddharth Konagurthu...
Clickthrough rate and cost-per-click are known to be among the factors that impact the rank of an ad shown on a search result page. Hence, search engines can benefit from estimat...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...