Many problems require minimally perturbing an initial state in order to repair some violated constraints. We consider two search spaces for exactly solving this minimal perturbatio...
We report on an exploratory, qualitative user study designed to identify users' goals underlying podcast search, the strategies used to gain access to podcasts, and how curre...
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...
In previous work, we proposed an algebra whose operators allow to specify the valid compound terms of a faceted taxonomy, in a flexible manner (by combining positive and negative ...
Anastasia Analyti, Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyra...
A commonly held belief is that the friend construct in C++ is a violation of encapsulation. However, little empirical analysis of its use has taken place to provide evidence to su...
Michael English, Jim Buckley, Tony Cahill, Kristia...