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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
USS
2008
15 years 6 months ago
Challenges and Directions for Monitoring P2P File Sharing Networks - or - Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice
We reverse engineer copyright enforcement in the popular BitTorrent file sharing network and find that a common approach for identifying infringing users is not conclusive. We desc...
Michael Piatek, Tadayoshi Kohno, Arvind Krishnamur...
CORR
2006
Springer
91views Education» more  CORR 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Why neighbor-joining works
We show that the neighbor-joining algorithm is a robust quartet method for constructing trees from distances. This leads to a new performance guarantee that contains Atteson's...
Radu Mihaescu, Dan Levy, Lior Pachter
PR
2006
65views more  PR 2006»
15 years 4 months ago
Why direct LDA is not equivalent to LDA
In this paper, we present counterarguments against the direct LDA algorithm (D-LDA), which was previously claimed to be equivalent to Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). We show f...
Hui Gao, James W. Davis
AC
2002
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Software Fault Prevention by Language Choice: Why C is Not My Favorite Language
How much does the choice of a programming language influence the prevalence of bugs in the resulting code? It seems obvious that at the level at which individuals write new progra...
Richard J. Fateman