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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Adaptive term frequency normalization for BM25
A key component of BM25 contributing to its success is its sub-linear term frequency (TF) normalization formula. The scale and shape of this TF normalization component is controll...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Block-based load balancing for entity resolution with MapReduce
The effectiveness and scalability of MapReduce-based implementations of complex data-intensive tasks depend on an even redistribution of data between map and reduce tasks. In the...
Lars Kolb, Andreas Thor, Erhard Rahm
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Content based social behavior prediction: a multi-task learning approach
The study of information flow analyzes the principles and mechanisms of social information distribution. It is becoming an extremely important research topic in social network re...
Hongliang Fei, Ruoyi Jiang, Yuhao Yang, Bo Luo, Ju...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
On the elasticity of NoSQL databases over cloud management platforms
NoSQL databases focus on analytical processing of large scale datasets, offering increased scalability over commodity hardware. One of their strongest features is elasticity, whi...
Ioannis Konstantinou, Evangelos Angelou, Christina...
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
An extended evaluation of the readability of tapered, animated, and textured directed-edge representations in node-link graphs
We present the results of a study comparing five directed-edge representations for use in 2D, screen-based node-link diagrams. The goal of this work is to extend the understandin...
Danny Holten, Petra Isenberg, Jarke J. van Wijk, J...
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Multilevel agglomerative edge bundling for visualizing large graphs
Graphs are often used to encapsulate relationships between objects. Node-link diagrams, commonly used to visualize graphs, suffer from visual clutter on large graphs. Edge bundlin...
Emden R. Gansner, Yifan Hu, Stephen C. North, Carl...
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Exploring geo-temporal differences using GTdiff
Many data sets exist that contain both geospatial and temporal elements. Within such data sets, it can be difficult to determine how the data have changed over spatial and tempor...
Orland Hoeber, Garnett Carl Wilson, Simon Harding,...
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Edge maps: Representing flow with bounded error
Robust analysis of vector fields has been established as an important tool for deriving insights from the complex systems these fields model. Many analysis techniques rely on co...
Harsh Bhatia, Shreeraj Jadhav, Peer-Timo Bremer, G...
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
Visualizing dynamic data with maps
Maps offer a familiar way to present geographic data (continents, countries), and additional information (topography, geology), can be displayed with the help of contours and heat...
Daisuke Mashima, Stephen G. Kobourov, Yifan Hu
APVIS
2011
12 years 8 months ago
View point evaluation and streamline filtering for flow visualization
Visualization of flow fields with geometric primitives is often challenging due to occlusion that is inevitably introduced by 3D streamlines. In this paper, we present a novel v...
Teng-Yok Lee, Oleg Mishchenko, Han-Wei Shen, Roger...