I examine the possible impact of venture capital (VC) backing on the commercialization direction of technology-based start-ups by asking: to what extent (if at all) do VC-backed s...
An optimal prefetching and I/O scheduling algorithm L-OPT, for parallel I/O systems, using a read-once model of block references is presented. The algorithm uses knowledge of the n...
One of the main problems in online advertising is to display ads which are relevant and appropriate w.r.t. what the user is looking for. Often search engines fail to reach this go...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
Although many variants of language models have been proposed for information retrieval, there are two related retrieval heuristics remaining “external” to the language modelin...
Geographical information retrieval (GIR) can benefit from context information to adapt the results to a user’s current situation and personal preferences. In this respect, seman...