We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
This work describes a forward-looking approach for the solution of dynamic (time-changing) problems using evolutionary algorithms. The main idea of the proposed method is to combi...
Genre or style analysis can be used to improve results achieved using standard IR techniques. A genre class is a group of documents that are written in a similar style. Genre clas...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
A large set of tools for network monitoring and accounting, security, traffic analysis and prediction — more broadly, for network operation and management — require direct and...
Loris Degioanni, Mario Baldi, Fulvio Risso, Gianlu...