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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
INFSOF
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Engineering contextual knowledge for autonomic pervasive services
Services for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises the problem...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
ISCI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating digital video recorder systems using analytic hierarchy and analytic network processes
Digital video recorder (DVR) systems are novel security products with significant potential for application in the surveillance market, which, like many other areas of security t...
Che-Wei Chang, Cheng-Ru Wu, Chin-Tsai Lin, Hung-Lu...
CMOT
1999
143views more  CMOT 1999»
13 years 7 months ago
Structural Learning: Attraction and Conformity in Task-Oriented Groups
This study extends previous research that showed how informal social sanctions can backfire when members prefer friendship over enforcement of group norms. We use a type of neural...
James A. Kitts, Michael W. Macy, Andreas Flache
SSD
1999
Springer
106views Database» more  SSD 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for Objects with Spatial Extension
There is an increasing need to integrate spatial index structures into commercial database management systems. In geographic information systems (GIS), huge amounts of information ...
Christian Böhm, Gerald Klump, Hans-Peter Krie...