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CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 11 days ago
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Jeff Huang, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
FOCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 days ago
Adaptive Simulated Annealing: A Near-optimal Connection between Sampling and Counting
We present a near-optimal reduction from approximately counting the cardinality of a discrete set to approximately sampling elements of the set. An important application of our wo...
Daniel Stefankovic, Santosh Vempala, Eric Vigoda
ISIPTA
1999
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
On the Distribution of Natural Probability Functions
The purpose of this note is to describe the underlying insights and results obtained by the authors, and others, in a series of papers aimed at modelling the distribution of `natu...
Jeff B. Paris, Paul N. Watton, George M. Wilmers
SIGSOFT
1998
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Effective Whole-Program Analysis in the Presence of Pointers
Understanding large software systems is difficult. Traditionally, automated tools are used to assist program understanding. However, the representations constructed by these tool...
Darren C. Atkinson, William G. Griswold
OPODIS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Small-World Networks: From Theoretical Bounds to Practical Systems
Abstract. In small-world networks, each peer is connected to its closest neighbors in the network topology, as well as to additional long-range contact(s), also called shortcut(s)....
François Bonnet, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mich...