This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...
— The share of software in embedded systems has been growing permanently in the recent years. Thus, software architecture as well as its evaluation have become important parts of...
The aim of the paper is to define an objective measurement for evaluating the performance of a digital camera. The challenge is to mix different flaws involving geometry (as disto...
In this paper, an approach for the implementation of a qualitybased Web search engine is proposed. Quality retrieval is introduced and an overview on previous efforts to implement...
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...