Sciweavers

5064 search results - page 43 / 1013
» Using noise to improve measurement and information processin...
Sort
View
WSC
2001
13 years 9 months ago
The use of simulation for process improvement at an ambulatory surgery center
This work has for objective building a simulation model to evaluate different alternatives of operation of a projected center for ambulatory surgery. For the construction of the m...
Francisco J. Ramis, Jorge L. Palma, Felipe F. Baes...
JSAC
2006
100views more  JSAC 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Measuring and Improving the Performance of Network Mobility Management in IPv6 Networks
Measuring the performance of an implementation of a set of protocols and analyzing the results is crucial to understanding the performance and limitations of the protocols in a rea...
Henrik Petander, Eranga Perera, Kun-Chan Lan, Arun...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Ad hoc IR: not much room for improvement
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Andrew Trotman, David Keeler
IV
2009
IEEE
170views Visualization» more  IV 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Measuring Aesthetics for Information Visualization
Aesthetics is an unsolved problem of information visualization, because there is no satisfactory understanding of what constitutes aesthetic effect. This survey paper gives an ove...
Daniel Filonik, Dominikus Baur
JSA
2008
81views more  JSA 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Improving stability for peer-to-peer multicast overlays by active measurements
The instability of the tree-like multicast overlay caused by nodes' abrupt departures is considered as one of the major problems for peer-to-peer (P2P) multicast systems. In ...
Ye Tian, Di Wu, Guangzhong Sun, Kam-Wing Ng