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ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
An Evaluation Measure for Distributed Information Retrieval Systems
This paper is concerned with the evaluation of distributed and peer-to-peer information retrieval systems. A new measure is introduced that compares results of a distributed retrie...
Hans Friedrich Witschel, Florian Holz, Gregor Hein...
DESRIST
2009
Springer
132views Education» more  DESRIST 2009»
13 years 9 months ago
Measuring information volatility in a health care information supply chain
We propose a measure of reliability called information volatility (IV) to complement Business Intelligence tools when considering aggregated data or when observing trends. Two typ...
Monica Chiarini Tremblay, Donald J. Berndt, Alan R...
HT
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Of categorizers and describers: an evaluation of quantitative measures for tagging motivation
While recent research has advanced our understanding about the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about (i) the underlying motivations for tagging (w...
Christian Körner, Roman Kern, Hans-Peter Grah...
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Collusion Behavior in the Maze P2P File-Sharing System
Peer-to-peer networks often use incentive policies to encourage cooperation between nodes. Such systems are generally susceptible to collusion by groups of users in order to gain ...
Qiao Lian, Zheng Zhang, Mao Yang, Ben Y. Zhao, Yaf...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Tracking the random surfer: empirically measured teleportation parameters in PageRank
PageRank computes the importance of each node in a directed graph under a random surfer model governed by a teleportation parameter. Commonly denoted alpha, this parameter models ...
David F. Gleich, Paul G. Constantine, Abraham D. F...