: The task of the creatures in the "creatures' exploration problem" is to visit all empty cells in an environment with a minimum number of steps. We have analyzed th...
— Over the years, the use of global grid environments have become widespread. In order to make applications robust against the dynamics of those grid environments it is essential...
In the paper we present the organization of the INEX 2009 interactive track. For the 2009 experiments the iTrack has gathered data on user search behavior in a collection consistin...
Nils Pharo, Ragnar Nordlie, Norbert Fuhr, Thomas B...
Previous research has shown that older adults performed worse in web search tasks, and attributed poorer performance to a decline in their cognitive abilities. We conducted a stud...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampalli...
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...