When a novice needs help, often the best solution is to find a human expert who is capable of answering the novice’s questions. But often, novices have difficulty characterizing...
The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
This brief research commentary on Westland's (2010) article in this issue of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications is intended to add two cautionary notes. He attempts...
A frozen 18.5 million page snapshot of part of the Web has been created to enable and encourage meaningful and reproducible evaluation of Web search systems and techniques. This c...
David Hawking, Nick Craswell, Paul B. Thistlewaite...
— We consider the situation where users rank items from a given set, and each user ranks only a (small) subset of all items. We assume that users can be classified into C classe...