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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 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
13 years 11 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»
13 years 8 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»
13 years 8 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
13 years 8 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