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CIKM
2001
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
The Effectiveness of Query Expansion for Distributed Information Retrieval
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
Paul Ogilvie, James P. Callan
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VLDB
2001
ACM
115views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
15 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Update Cube for Range-sum Queries
A range-sum query is very popular and becomes important in finding trends and in discovering relationships between attributes in diverse database applications. It sums over the se...
Seok-Ju Chun, Chin-Wan Chung, Ju-Hong Lee, Seok-Ly...
CHI
2000
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The social life of small graphical chat spaces
This paper provides a unique quantitative analysis of the social dynamics of three chat rooms in the Microsoft VChat graphical chat system. Survey and behavioral data were used to...
Marc A. Smith, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker
INFOCOM
1999
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Improving Reliable Multicast Using Active Parity Encoding Services (APES)
We propose and evaluate novel reliable multicast protocols that combine active repair service (a.k.a. local recovery) and parity encoding (a.k.a. forward error correction or FEC) ...
Dan Rubenstein, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Donald F. Tows...
ICRA
1998
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 1998»
15 years 9 months ago
Choosing Good Distance Metrics and Local Planners for Probabilistic Roadmap Methods
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of different distance metrics and local planners within the context of probabilistic roadmap methods for motion planning. Both C-space...
Nancy M. Amato, O. Burçhan Bayazit, Lucia K...