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SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the estimation of relevance models using large external corpora
Information retrieval algorithms leverage various collection statistics to improve performance. Because these statistics are often computed on a relatively small evaluation corpus...
Fernando Diaz, Donald Metzler
SIGKDD
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Learning to improve area-under-FROC for imbalanced medical data classification using an ensemble method
This paper presents our solution for KDD Cup 2008 competition that aims at optimizing the area under ROC for breast cancer detection. We exploited weighted-based classification me...
Hung-Yi Lo, Chun-Min Chang, Tsung-Hsien Chiang, Ch...
IJHPCN
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Implications of application usage characteristics for collective communication offload
Abstract-- The performance of collective communication operations is known to have a significant impact on the scalability of some applications. Indeed, the global, synchronous nat...
Ron Brightwell, Sue Goudy, Arun Rodrigues, Keith D...
CAISE
2004
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Ontologies for Analysis and Improvement of Business Process Quality in a Virtual Enterprise
The paper describes the representation and use of three ontologies in a software aiming at the assistance of a virtual team in business process analysis and improvement (BPI), usin...
Alexandra Galatescu, Taisia Greceanu
METRICS
2003
IEEE
14 years 23 days ago
Using Prior-Phase Effort Records for Re-estimation During Software Projects
Estimating the effort required for software process activities continues to present difficulties for software engineers, particularly given the uncertainty and subjectivity associ...
Stephen G. MacDonell, Martin J. Shepperd