We investigate to what extent people making relevance judgements for a reusable IR test collection are exchangeable. We consider three classes of judge: "gold standard" ...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Th...
End-user programming has become ubiquitous, so much so that there are more end-user programmers today than there are professional programmers. End-user programming empowers—but t...
Most modern Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) feature shared cache on chip. For multithreaded applications, the sharing reduces communication latency among co-running threads, but also r...
Abstract— The well-known PASTA (“Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages”) property states that, under very general conditions, the fraction of Poisson arrivals that observe an un...
Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Cons...
This work analyzes the connectivity of large diameter networks where every link has an independent probability p of failure. We give a (relatively simple) topological condition th...