In order to improve software maintenance processes, we need to be able to first characterize and assess them. This task needs to be performed in depth and with objectivity since t...
Lionel C. Briand, Victor R. Basili, Yong-Mi Kim, D...
Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Packet loss patterns over unidirectional satellite link provide useful information for improving the performance of applications like bulk data transfer to many recipients. In this...
Mohammad Abdul Awal, Kanchana Kanchanasut, Yasuo T...
The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and au...
Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker,...
This paper assesses the usefulness of surface features in a multimedia retrieval setting. Surface features describe the metadata or structure of a document rather than the content....
Thijs Westerveld, Arjen P. de Vries, Georgina Ram&...