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WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tool for accurately predicting website navigation problems, non-problems, problem severity, and effectiveness of repairs
The Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web (CWW) is a partially automated usability evaluation method for identifying and repairing website navigation problems. Building on five earlie...
Marilyn Hughes Blackmon, Muneo Kitajima, Peter G. ...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation
Block-level sampling is far more efficient than true uniform-random sampling over a large database, but prone to significant errors if used to create database statistics. In this ...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Utkarsh Srivastava
ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects
Several scientific projects use BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) to perform largescale simulations using volunteers’ computers (workers) across the Int...
Trilce Estrada, David A. Flores, Michela Taufer, P...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling the Effect of Mobile Handoffs on TCP and TFRC Throughput
— At the forefront of the recent advances in mobile networks is the development of sophisticated mobility management mechanisms that are usually based on Mobile IP and its deriva...
Antonios Argyriou, Vijay K. Madisetti