We consider i) the overhead minimization of maximum-distance seperable (MDS) storage codes for the repair of a single failed node and ii) the total secure degrees-of-freedom (S-DoF...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Retrieval systems rank documents according to their retrieval status values (RSV) if these are monotonously increasing with the probability of relevance of documents. In this work,...
Evaluation metrics play a critical role both in the context of comparative evaluation of the performance of retrieval systems and in the context of learning-to-rank (LTR) as objec...
Stephen E. Robertson, Evangelos Kanoulas, Emine Yi...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...