We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
Performance management (PM) is a key function of virtual organization (VO) management. A large set of PM indicators has been proposed and evaluated within the context of virtual br...
—A promising method of automating management tasks in computing systems is to formulate them as control or optimization problems in terms of performance metrics. For an online op...
In the KL divergence framework, the extended language modeling approach has a critical problem estimating a query model, which is the probabilistic model that encodes user’s inf...
Abstract. The identification of reliable and interesting items on Internet becomes more and more difficult and time consuming. This paper is a position paper describing our intend...