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LOCWEB
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The case for a location metasystem
Microsoft has proposed an identity metasystem to standardize identity services and the principles behind them. A location metasystem can support interoperation between location se...
Nick Doty
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Propagation of trust and distrust
A (directed) network of people connected by ratings or trust scores, and a model for propagating those trust scores, is a fundamental building block in many of today's most s...
Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
On rank correlation and the distance between rankings
Rank correlation statistics are useful for determining whether a there is a correspondence between two measurements, particularly when the measures themselves are of less interest...
Ben Carterette
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Intuition-supporting visualization of user's performance based on explicit negative higher-order relevance
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
Heikki Keskustalo, Kalervo Järvelin, Ari Pirk...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
On Clusterings - Good, Bad and Spectral
We motivate and develop a natural bicriteria measure for assessing the quality of a clustering that avoids the drawbacks of existing measures. A simple recursive heuristic is shown...
Ravi Kannan, Santosh Vempala, Adrian Vetta