In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...
- Researchers are faced with a wide range of tasks when interacting with the literature of a scientific field. These tasks range from determining the field’s seminal documents, f...
Richard H. Fowler, Kyle Picou, Wendy Fowler, Yavuz...
We simulate different architectures of a distributed Information Retrieval system on a very large Web collection, in order to work out the optimal setting for a particular set of r...
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
— We consider the problem of distributed scheduling in wireless networks. We present two different algorithms whose performance is arbitrarily close to that of maximal schedules,...