—We present an empirical usability experiment studying the relative strengths and weaknesses of three different occlusion management techniques for discovering and accessing obje...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
The intent-oriented search diversification methods developed in the field so far tend to build on generative views of the retrieval system to be diversified. Core algorithm compon...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
NETCICATS is a software system for empirically evaluating network-conscious image compression, an approach that does not simply optimize compression, but which optimizes overall pe...