Forming test collection relevance judgments from the pooled output of multiple retrieval systems has become the standard process for creating resources such as the TREC, CLEF, and...
We examine a policy for managing modem pools that disconnects users only if not enough modems are available for other users to connect. Managing the modem pool then becomes a repl...
Dynamic memory allocation is widely used in modern programs. General-purpose heap allocators often focus more on reducing their run-time overhead and memory space utilization, but...
Information retrieval systems are evaluated against test collections of topics, documents, and assessments of which documents are relevant to which topics. Documents are chosen fo...
Invariant representations in object recognition systems are generally obtained by pooling feature vectors over spatially local neighborhoods. But pooling is not local in the featu...
Y-Lan Boureau, Nicolas Le Roux, francis bach, Jean...