While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has attrac...
Stephen Dignum, Udo Kruschwitz, Maria Fasli, Yunhy...
We discuss the problem of assessing and aiding user performance in dynamic tasks that require rapid selection among multiple information sources. Motivated by research in human se...
Bradley C. Love, Matt Jones, Marc T. Tomlinson, Mi...
A framework for task assignment in heterogeneous computing systems is presented in this work. The framework is based on a learning automata model. The proposed model can be used f...
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Resource management and scheduling plays a crucial role in achieving high utilization of resources in grid computing environments. Due to heterogeneity of resources, scheduling an...