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SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
KDD
1998
ACM
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15 years 1 months ago
Aggregation of Imprecise and Uncertain Information for Knowledge Discovery in Databases
We consider the problem of aggregation for uncertain and imprecise data. For such data, we define aggregation operators and use them to provide information on properties and patte...
Sally I. McClean, Bryan W. Scotney, Mary Shapcott
WSC
2004
14 years 10 months ago
An Urban Terrain Abstraction to Support Decisionmaking Using Recursive Simulation
Recursive simulation is the technique of having simulated decisionmakers themselves use simulation to inform their decisionmaking. Issues of efficiency require that the recursive ...
John B. Gilmer Jr.
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INFFUS
2006
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14 years 9 months ago
Fusion rules for merging uncertain information
In previous papers, we have presented a logic-based framework based on fusion rules for merging structured news reports [Hun00, Hun02b, Hun02a, HS03, HS04]. Structured news report...
Anthony Hunter, Weiru Liu
BMCBI
2010
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14 years 9 months ago
pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree
Background: Likelihood-based phylogenetic inference is generally considered to be the most reliable classification method for unknown sequences. However, traditional likelihood-ba...
Frederick A. Matsen III, Robin B. Kodner, E. Virgi...