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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Controlled Flooding Search with Delay Constraints
— In this paper we consider the problem of query and search in a network, e.g., searching for a specific node or a piece of data. We limit our attention to the class of TTL (tim...
Nicholas B. Chang, Mingyan Liu
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DATE
2008
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Adaptive Filesystem Compression for Embedded Systems
Abstract—Embedded system secondary storage size is often constrained, yet storage demands are growing as a result of increasing application complexity and storage of personal dat...
Lan S. Bai, Haris Lekatsas, Robert P. Dick
115
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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 13 days ago
A boosting approach to improving pseudo-relevance feedback
Pseudo-relevance feedback has proven effective for improving the average retrieval performance. Unfortunately, many experiments have shown that although pseudo-relevance feedback...
Yuanhua Lv, ChengXiang Zhai, Wan Chen
91
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JAIR
2010
143views more  JAIR 2010»
14 years 8 months ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy in Online Services
Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent eff...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz