Abstract. Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI) has been proved to be effective to capture the semantic structure of document collections. It is widely used in content-based text retrieval...
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...
Of the major factors affecting end-to-end service availability, network component failure is perhaps the least well understood. How often do failures occur, how long do they last,...
Daniel Turner, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, ...
In the past, we have observed several large blackouts, i.e. loss of power to large areas. It has been noted by several researchers that these large blackouts are a result of a cas...