We investigate to what extent people making relevance judgements for a reusable IR test collection are exchangeable. We consider three classes of judge: "gold standard" ...
Peter Bailey, Nick Craswell, Ian Soboroff, Paul Th...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
An ideal product modeling system should support both part modeling and assembly modeling, instead of just either of them as is the case in most current CAD systems. A good basis f...
Rafael Bidarra, Niels Kranendonk, Alex Noort, Will...
Bursty traffic is dominant in modern communication networks and keeps the call-level QoS assessment an open issue. ON-OFF traffic models are commonly used to describe bursty tra...
Ioannis D. Moscholios, Michael D. Logothetis, Mich...
Establishing trust between a group of individuals remains a difficult problem. Prior works assume trusted infrastructure, require an individual to trust unknown entities, or provi...