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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Relevance assessment: are judges exchangeable and does it matter
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...
ISEUD
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
What Is End-User Software Engineering and Why Does It Matter?
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...
Margaret M. Burnett
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Does cache sharing on modern CMP matter to the performance of contemporary multithreaded programs?
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...
Eddy Z. Zhang, Xipeng Shen, Yunlian Jiang
IMC
2005
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Poisson versus Periodic Path Probing (or, Does PASTA Matter?)
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...
SIGMETRICS
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Robust network connectivity: when it's the big picture that matters
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...
Enoch Peserico, Larry Rudolph