Current user interfaces for Web search, including browsers and search engine sites, typically treat search as a transient activity. However, people often conduct complex, multique...
Abstract. High-value rare-event searching is arguably the most natural application of grid computing, where computational tasks are distributed to a large collection of clients (wh...
Estimates suggest that more than 75% of engineering design activity comprises reuse of previous design knowledge to address a new design problem. Reusing design knowledge has grea...
In this paper, we develop and evaluate several probabilistic models of user click-through behavior that are appropriate for modeling the click-through rates of items that are pres...
Hila Becker, Christopher Meek, David Maxwell Chick...
This paper is to investigate rank aggregation based on multiple user-centered measures in the context of the web search. We introduce a set of techniques to combine ranking lists ...