Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
We introduce and validate bootstrap techniques to compute confidence intervals that quantify the effect of test-collection variability on average precision (AP) and mean average...
The paper summarises the ambient vibration-based assessment of an historic suspension footbridge, dating back to 1928. The footbridge is characterised by the timber floor system s...
This paper describes a hypermedia infrastructure, called HyperDisco, designed to address important issues such as integration, collaboration, versioning, scalability, openness, di...
In distributed scenarios the robustness of a reputation mechanism depends on the data available for computation. Especially in ad-hoc networks the amount of available data is rest...