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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
How good is a span of terms?: exploiting proximity to improve web retrieval
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...
Krysta Marie Svore, Pallika H. Kanani, Nazan Khan
RV
2007
Springer
100views Hardware» more  RV 2007»
13 years 10 months ago
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, But How Ugly Is Ugly?
When monitoring a system wrt. a property defined in some temporal logic, e. g., LTL, a major concern is to settle with an adequate interpretation of observable system events; that...
Andreas Bauer 0002, Martin Leucker, Christian Scha...
AHSWN
2010
130views more  AHSWN 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
How Good is Opportunistic Routing? - A Reality Check under Rayleigh Fading Channels
Considerations of realistic channel dynamics motivate the design of a new breed of opportunistic schemes, such as opportunistic transmission, scheduling and routing. Compared to t...
Rong Zheng, Chengzhi Li
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
How to Select a Good Alternate Path in Large Peer-to-Peer Systems?
Abstract— When multiple paths are available between communicating hosts, application quality can be improved by switching among them to always use the best one. The key to such a...
Teng Fei, Shu Tao, Lixin Gao, Roch Guérin
SIGSOFT
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How a good software practice thwarts collaboration: the multiple roles of APIs in software development
The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementat...
Cleidson R. B. de Souza, David F. Redmiles, Li-Te ...