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...
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the query...
Learning to program is a unique experience for each student, and it is not fully understood why one person in an introductory programming course learns to program better and more ...
Vennila Ramalingam, Deborah LaBelle, Susan Wiedenb...
This paper examines IS higher education, concentrating on issues of ‘coherence’ in IS curricula. While curriculum coherence can be jeopardized by poor curriculum design, misal...
The public safety community in the United States consists of thousands of local, state, and federal agencies, each with its own information system. In the past few years, there ha...