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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
On profiling blogs with representative entries
With an explosive growth of blogs, information seeking in blogosphere becomes more and more challenging. One example task is to find the most relevant topical blogs against a give...
Jinfeng Zhuang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Aixin Sun
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
150views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Performance of random medium access control, an asymptotic approach
Random Medium-Access-Control (MAC) algorithms have played an increasingly important role in the development of wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) and yet the performanc...
Charles Bordenave, David McDonald, Alexandre Prout...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
113views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Supporting OLAP operations over imperfectly integrated taxonomies
OLAP is an important tool in decision support. With the help of domain knowledge, such as hierarchies of attribute values, OLAP helps the user observe the effects of various decis...
Yan Qi 0002, K. Selçuk Candan, Jun'ichi Tat...
IJISEC
2007
119views more  IJISEC 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
An incentive compatible reputation mechanism for ubiquitous computing environments
The vision of ubiquitous computing is becoming a reality thanks to the advent of portable devices and the advances in wireless networking technologies. It aims to facilitate user ...
Jinshan Liu, Valérie Issarny