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FOCS
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Cryptography from Sunspots: How to Use an Imperfect Reference String
The Common Reference String (CRS) model equips all protocol participants with a common string that is sampled from a pre-specified distribution, say the uniform distribution. Thi...
Ran Canetti, Rafael Pass, Abhi Shelat
IMC
2006
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding churn in peer-to-peer networks
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Goal-Driven Collaborative Filtering - A Directional Error Based Approach
Collaborative filtering is one of the most effective techniques for making personalized content recommendation. In the literature, a common experimental setup in the modeling phase...
Tamas Jambor, Jun Wang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
User adaptation: good results from poor systems
Several recent studies have found only a weak relationship between the performance of a retrieval system and the "success" achievable by human searchers. We hypothesize ...
Catherine L. Smith, Paul B. Kantor
CIKM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Generalizing from relevance feedback using named entity wildcards
Traditional adaptive filtering systems learn the user’s interests in a rather simple way – words from relevant documents are favored in the query model, while words from irre...
Abhimanyu Lad, Yiming Yang