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GROUP
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
That's what friends are for: facilitating 'who knows what' across group boundaries
We describe the design and evaluation of K-net, a social matching system to help people learn 'who knows what' in an organization by matching people with skills with tho...
N. Sadat Shami, Y. Connie Yuan, Dan Cosley, Ling X...
CIKM
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
VLDB
1998
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 1998»
13 years 10 months ago
Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL
Deterministic testing of SQL database systems is human intensive and cannot adequately cover the SQL input domain. A system (RAGS), was built to stochastically generate valid SQL ...
Donald R. Slutz
P2P
2010
IEEE
207views Communications» more  P2P 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Local Access to Sparse and Large Global Information in P2P Networks: A Case for Compressive Sensing
—In this paper we face the following problem: how to provide each peer local access to the full information (not just a summary) that is distributed over all edges of an overlay ...
Rossano Gaeta, Marco Grangetto, Matteo Sereno
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 8 days ago
On rank correlation and the distance between rankings
Rank correlation statistics are useful for determining whether a there is a correspondence between two measurements, particularly when the measures themselves are of less interest...
Ben Carterette